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The Advan­tages of Old-Fash­ioned Reporting

Ear­li­er this week, Andrew Nagors­ki divulged the advan­tage of spread­ing the word about your research. With the release of his sixth book, The Nazi Hunters, this week, Andrew…
Andrew Nagors­ki
May 11, 2016
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Spread­ing the Word

Andrew Nagors­ki is the author of Hitler­land and The Nazi Hunters, released this week. Andrew is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as part of the Vis­it­ing…
Andrew Nagors­ki
May 9, 2016
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Ben­ny Leonard: The Gold­en Stan­dard for a Gold­en Age

Ear­li­er this week, Mike Sil­ver intro­duced read­ers to boxing’s for­got­ten Jew­ish cham­pi­ons of the ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry fea­tured in Stars in the Ring: Jew­ish…
Mike Sil­ver
May 5, 2016
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The Cre­ative Process and the Jew­ish Arts

Ear­li­er this week, Nora Gold shared her dis­cov­ery of Jew­ish music and its influ­ence on her lat­est nov­el, The Dead Man. Nora is blog­ging here all week as part of the…
Nora Gold
May 4, 2016
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In the Clear­ing Stands a (Jew­ish) Boxer

Mike Sil­ver is a box­ing his­to­ri­an whose sec­ond book, Stars in the Ring: Jew­ish Cham­pi­ons in the Gold­en Age of Box­ing: A Pho­to­graph­ic His­to­ry, comes out…
Mike Sil­ver
May 3, 2016
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The Pow­er of Jew­ish Music

Nora Gold​’s lat­est book, The Dead Man, fol­lows the sto­ry of a com­pos­er of Jew­ish sacred music and a music ther­a­pist with an uncon­quer­able obses­sion. Nora is…
Nora Gold
May 2, 2016
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