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Essay Joanna Hershon and the Memorial Joanna Hershon’s most recent novel, A Dual Inheritance, was published earlier this month by Ballantine Books. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Joanna Hershon May 20, 2013
Essay Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear: Shame, Truth, and Reconciliation In her first two installments of “Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear,” Randy Susan Meyers wrote about an essay in which the writer met with an elderly former SS… Randy Susan Meyers May 17, 2013
Essay Ben Lerner: Working Against the Image of the Conventional Novel We prompted this year’s Sami Rohr Prize awardees to write about “how they came to write their book.” Over the next several weeks, we’ll share their responses. Today, Ben… Ben Lerner May 14, 2013
Essay Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear: Ordinary German Citizens During WWII In her first installment of “Collective Guilt vs. Collective Fear,” Randy Susan Meyers wrote about an essay in which the writer met with an elderly former SS officer.… Randy Susan Meyers May 14, 2013
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 Rebecca Miller on Gluckel of Hameln This week on the Visiting Scribe, Rebecca Miller will be sharing texts that shed light on Jewish life in eighteenth-century France, the setting of her new novel,… Rebecca Miller May 13, 2013
