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Short Stories

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Fic­tion
Jerusalem Ablaze: Sto­ries of Love and Oth­er Obsessions
Orlan­do Ortega-Medina
Cover of Uncle Yossi's Big Book of Stories - Volume 3
Chil­dren’s
Uncle Yos­si’s Big Book of Sto­ries — Vol­ume 3
Rabbi Zalman Goldstein and Rabbi Yosef Goldstein
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Fic­tion
The Dog’s Last Walk (and Oth­er Pieces)
Howard Jacob­son
Essay

Research­ing and Writ­ing Short Stories

Ron­na Wineberg
June 19, 2017
Interview

Inter­view: The Worlds of Dalia Rosenfeld

Adam Rovn­er
June 4, 2017
Cover of A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories
Non­fic­tion
A Con­tract with God: And Oth­er Ten­e­ment Stories
Will Eisner
Cover of The Worlds We Think We Know
Fic­tion
The Worlds We Think We Know
Dalia Rosen­feld
Interview

David Bez­mozgis on Turn­ing His Short Sto­ry, ​“Natasha,” into a Film

Ranen Omer-Sher­man
April 25, 2017
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Fic­tion
The Con­tin­u­ing Silence of a Poet
A.B. Yehoshua
Cover of Sweet Is the Light: Ten Crossroads
Fic­tion
Sweet Is the Light: Ten Crossroads
Charles H. Freundlich
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Fic­tion
Nec­es­sary Stories
Haim Watz­man
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Book Cov­er of the Week: E. L. Doc­torow’s Col­lect­ed Stories

Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinA year and a half after the pass­ing of ​“the reign­ing god­fa­ther of his­tor­i­cal fic­tion,” a new col­lec­tion of fif­teen sto­ries…
Nat Bern­stein
December 20, 2016
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Fic­tion
Doc­torow: Col­lect­ed Stories
E. L. Doctorow
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Fic­tion
Oedi­pus in Brook­lyn and Oth­er Stories
Blume Lempel; Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, trans.
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Fic­tion
Oy, Caram­ba!: An Anthol­o­gy of Jew­ish Sto­ries from Latin America
Ilan Sta­vans
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Bertrand Court
Michelle Braf­man
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