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Sacha Lamb

Sacha Lamb is a 2018 Lamb­da Lit­er­ary Fel­low in young adult fic­tion, and grad­u­at­ed in Library and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence and His­to­ry from Sim­mons Uni­ver­si­ty. Sacha lives in New Eng­land with a minia­ture dachs­hund mix named Anzu Bean. When The Angels Left The Old Coun­try is their debut novel.

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‘Pasts That Are as Diverse as the Present’: A Con­ver­sa­tion between Sacha Lamb and Aden Polydoros

Sacha Lamb, Aden Poly­doros
September 19, 2022
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Queer Iden­ti­ty in Jew­ish His­to­ry: An Inter­view with Noam Sienna 

An inter­view about an anthol­o­gy explor­ing mar­gin­al­ized voic­es in Jew­ish history

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June 11, 2019
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Where Are All the Hap­py Jew­ish Stories?

Sacha Lamb is a part-time librar­i­an, part-time stu­dent, and part-time YA writer and read­er. She is blog­ging here as part of Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe…
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‘Pasts That Are as Diverse as the Present’: A Con­ver­sa­tion between Sacha Lamb and Aden Polydoros

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