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Jack­ie Anzaroot

Jack­ie Anza­root is a grad­u­ate of Brook­lyn Col­lege with degrees in Eng­lish and Lin­guis­tics. She has held intern­ships at Simon & Schus­ter and is cur­rent­ly intern­ing at the Jew­ish Book Council.
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Essay

Michael Wex’s Indiegogo Cam­paign to Fund Trans­la­tion of Yid­dish Novel

by Jack­ie AnzarootMichael Wex, author of Born to Kvetch and well-known Yid­dish schol­ar, is cur­rent­ly try­ing to crowd-fund his next project, a trans­la­tion of…
Jack­ie Anzaroot
May 14, 2013
Essay

In Our Time: Book Cov­ers from R. B. Kitaj’s Per­son­al Library

by Jack­ie AnzarootThe Jew­ish Muse­um has opened a new exhib­it titled R. B. Kitaj: Per­son­al Library fea­tur­ing the work of R. B. Kitaj, famed Jew­ish Amer­i­can artist…
Jack­ie Anzaroot
May 3, 2013
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Passover Roundup

Post­ed by Jack­ie AnzarootPassover is only two weeks away! For Passover book rec­om­men­da­tions, check out our list of our Passover favorites as well as our list of chil­dren’s…
Jack­ie Anzaroot
March 12, 2013
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RA and Jew­ish Lights Pub­lish­ing Form Joint Pub­lish­ing Imprint

Post­ed by Jack­ie AnzarootIt was announced last week that two major play­ers in the Jew­ish book world, Jew­ish Lights Pub­lish­ing and the Rab­bini­cal Assem­bly, will be…
Jack­ie Anzaroot
March 5, 2013
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Here Comes Mrs. Kugel­man: A Novel
Minka Pradelski; Philip Boehm , trans.
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One Last Thing Before I Go
Jonathan Tropper

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