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A Poem: The Quan­tum Rabbi

A poem from the recent­ly pub­lished To Sing Away the Dark­est Days: Poems Re-imag­ined from Yid­dish Folk­songs (Hol­land Park Press), a new poet­ry col­lec­tion from…
Nor­bert Hirschhorn
August 28, 2013
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Excerpt Fri­day

Today’s Excerpt Fri­day fea­tures Chap­ter 8 from Main­tain­ing Recov­ery from Eat­ing Dis­or­ders: Avoid­ing Relapse and Recov­er­ing Life (Nao­mi…
Nao­mi Feigenbaum
September 23, 2011
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Excerpt Fri­day (part B): The Hat

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIn the spring issue of Jew­ish Book World, Deb­o­rah Schoen­e­man offered the fol­low­ing review of Babette Hughes’s The…
Babette Hugh­es
May 6, 2011
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Excerpt Fri­day (part A): Folk­tales of the Jews

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterJBC is very excit­ed about the release of the newest vol­ume in the Folk­tales of the Jews series (edit­ed with com­men­tary by Dan Ben-Amos),…
Flo­ra Cohen
May 6, 2011
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Excerpt from Yael Hedaya’s Eden

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterThe fall issue of Zeek is now avail­able! The newest issue fea­tures fic­tion from Yael Gold­stein Love. Also, check out an…
JBC Staff
October 19, 2010
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Steve Stern’s The Frozen Rabbi

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterThis is week one of Tablet’s seri­al­iza­tion of nov­el­ist Steve Stern’s forth­com­ing The Frozen Rab­bi (Algo­nquin Books). Read…
JBC Staff
March 1, 2010
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