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Essay Remembering Avrom Sutzkever Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAvrom Sutzkever, 1950 – photo by Fritz CohenJeremy Dauber writes for The New Republic on the Yiddish poet Avrom… JBC Staff February 2, 2010
News JBC at the National Yiddish Book Center Posted by Libi AdlerJewish Book Council staff headed up north this weekend to Amherst, MA to check out the National Yiddish Book Center. The center was… Libi Adler October 13, 2009
News Josef Burg, Yiddish author, dies at 97 Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThe New York Times reports on the death of Josef Burg, one of the last Yiddish authors in Eastern Europe, whose death on August 10, 2009,… JBC Staff October 7, 2009
Essay Rise of the New Yiddishists Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterVanity Fair explores the next generation of Jewish authors:Thirty years ago the American Jewish fiction of Philip Roth and Saul… JBC Staff April 20, 2009
