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Nonfiction Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit Lila Corwin Berman
Nonfiction God’ll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of A White Supremacist, A Black Hustler, A Murder, And How I Lost A Year In Mississippi John Safran
Interview Interview: Dina Elenbogen by Howard SchwartzJewish Book Council sat down with Dina Elenbogen, poet and author of Drawn from Water: An American Poet, An Ethiopian Family, An Israeli Story, to… Howard Schwartz August 19, 2015
Essay Dry Goods Merchant and Freedom Fighter: Samuel Fleishman of Marianna, FL Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about the Jews who lived in Mound Bayou. Her most recent book is Freedom’s Island, about an all-black Mississippi town menaced… Sabra Waldfogel July 9, 2015
Essay The Jews of Mound Bayou Sabra Waldfogel writes historical fiction about Southern Jews and African Americans in slavery and freedom. Her most recent book, Freedom’s Island, about an all-black… Sabra Waldfogel July 6, 2015
Excerpt Tightening the Narrative Earlier this week, Letty Cottin Pogrebinshared three passagesthat didn’t make it into her just-published novel Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate. She also… Letty Cottin Pogrebin May 21, 2015
Essay On Writing about Black-Jewish Relations in a Novel On Monday and Tuesday this week, Letty Cottin Pogrebinshared two passagesthat didn’t make it into her just-published novel Single Jewish Male Seeking… Letty Cottin Pogrebin May 20, 2015
Nonfiction My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair; Carolin Sommer, trans.
Nonfiction That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South Caroline E. Light
Essay Jews and Slavery: Isaac Cardozo and Lydia Weston Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century, and Clara Solomon, a Jewish girl… Sabra Waldfogel August 1, 2014
Essay Jews and Slavery: Clara Solomon and Lucy Lewis Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century. She has recently published Slave and… Sabra Waldfogel July 30, 2014
