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Essay A Jewish Thanksgiving in Avalon Earlier this week, Harry Brod wrote about Jews not have a “middle range,” speaking backwards, a couple of sayings with which he disagrees and why he always… Harry Brod December 21, 2012
Nonfiction From the Fair: The Autobiography of Sholom Aleichem Sholom Aleichem; Curt Leviant, trans.
Recommended Reading The Hare With Amber Eyes: The Illustrated Edition Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterFor those who haven’t jumped on the Edmund de Waal train yet, here’s your chance! Farrar, Straus and Giroux will be publishing the… Naomi Firestone-Teeter October 25, 2012
Nonfiction Race, Rights, & Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969 Dean J. Franco
Visual Arts Eyes of Memory: Photographs from the Archive of Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld Leni Sonnenfeld
Visual Arts Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bruce Davidson, photographs
Nonfiction And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women’s Writing Wendy I. Zierler