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News 100th Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire A few days behind on this one, but never too late to share some of the great content from the Forward. To commemorate and honor the 100th anniversary of the… JBC Staff March 29, 2011
Essay Old and Grey and Only in the Way Earlier this week, Michael Wex, author of The Frumkiss Family Business, wrote about writing about intermarriage and being the kvetch guy. He… Michael Wex January 7, 2011
Essay Being the Kvetch Guy On Monday, Michael Wex wrote about the birth of his idea for his new novel The Frumkiss Family Business. He will be blogging all week for… Michael Wex January 5, 2011
Essay Birth of A Family Business Michael Wex is the author of Born to Kvetch, and the new novel The Frumkiss Family Business. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book… Michael Wex January 3, 2011
Recommended Reading The Other Other Singer Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAfter spending the last few days up at the National Yiddish Book Center, it’s only fitting that we would be drawn to an article on… Naomi Firestone-Teeter July 28, 2010
Essay The Oy of Yiddish Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterThis week on Schott’s Vocab (a blog by Ben Schott for the NY Times), vocabularists were invited to pose questions to Michael Wex (Born to… JBC Staff April 15, 2010
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
