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Essay The Rabbi Whisperer Ponders the Sermon Earlier this week, Amy Gottlieb wrote about how the works of I. B. Singer and the “beautiful, perceptive” women around her mother’s kitchen table individually… Amy Gottlieb February 19, 2016
Essay Po-wer-ful: Fashioning the Character of Joseph Stalin Earlier this week, author Paul Goldberg wrote about the family stories that sparked The Yid and the popularity of King Lear in midcentury Moscow and Yiddish… Paul Goldberg February 18, 2016
Essay I. B. Singer and the Hidden Afikomen Earlier this week, Amy Gottlieb described the “beautiful, perceptive” women around her mother’s kitchen table who inspired The Beautiful Possible. Amy is blogging… Amy Gottlieb February 17, 2016
Essay We Don’t Get to Choose Our Material Earlier this week, author Paul Goldberg wrote about the popularity of King Lear in midcentury Moscow and Yiddish theater. With the release of his novel The Yid, Paul… Paul Goldberg February 16, 2016
Essay The Women at the Kitchen Table Amy Gottlieb is the author of The Beautiful Possible, a novel spanning from 1930s Berlin to the United States in the midcentury to modern-day Jerusalem. Amy is… Amy Gottlieb February 15, 2016
Essay Lear’s Warning Paul Goldberg first heard a Moscow version of the myth about Jews using blood for religious rituals when he was ten, in 1969. By the time he emigrated to the US in… Paul Goldberg February 15, 2016
