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Fiction Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from the Forward Ezra Glinter
Fiction And So Is the Bus: Jerusalem Stories Yossel Birstein; Margaret Birstein, Hana Infar, and Robert Manaster, trans.
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God Posted by Nat BernsteinFourteen years after its original publication in English translation, Etgar Keret’s seminal collection of short stories was reissued… Nat Bernstein October 29, 2015
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Best Place on Earth Posted by Nat BernsteinExcellent news! Ayelet Tsabari’s debut collection of short stories, The Best Place on Earth—which won the 2015 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish… Nat Bernstein July 10, 2015
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Molly Antopol Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterToday we hear from one final 2015 Sami Rohr Prize finalist: Molly Antopol. Molly’s debut collection of stories, The UnAmericans,… Naom Firestone-Teeter February 17, 2015