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Interview

Break­ing Down Walls: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Nan­cy Churnin

Emi­ly Schneider
May 2, 2022
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Fic­tion
Address Unknown
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
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Fic­tion
Let­ters to Camondo
Edmund de Waal
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Fic­tion
Holy Lands
Amanda Sthers
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We Are Going to Be Lucky: A World War II Love Sto­ry in Letters
Eliz­a­beth L. Fox
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Non­fic­tion
Why Judaism Mat­ters: Let­ters of a Lib­er­al Rab­bi to His Chil­dren and the Mil­len­ni­al Generation
Rabbi John Rosove
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Danc­ing on a Pow­der Keg
Michal Schwartz
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I Hate Every­one But You
Alli­son Raskin
Gaby Dunn
Essay

Nine Rules for Writ­ing Jew­ish Letters

In hon­or of the 65th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil asked some of this year’s win­ners to share their top rules for writ­ing an award-win­ning book.…
Alice Nakhi­movsky, Rober­ta Newman
March 7, 2016
Essay

Paper­less Love: A Let­ter from Valy

Ear­li­er this week, Sarah Wild­man wrote about trans­lat­ing let­ters writ­ten in Yid­dish by her fam­i­ly and shared a short read­ing list and an inter­est­ing let­ter…
Sarah Wild­man
October 31, 2014
Essay

Paper­less Love: A Short Read­ing List from Sarah Wildman

Ear­li­er this week, Sarah Wild­man shared an inter­est­ing let­ter that did­n’t make it into her book, Paper Love: Search­ing for the Girl My Grand­fa­ther Left Behind. She has…
Sarah Wild­man
October 29, 2014
Essay

Paper­less Love: An Unset­tling Departure

Sarah Wild­man has report­ed across Europe and the Mid­dle East for The New York Times, Slate, and The New York­er, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions, and is a for­mer New…
Sarah Wild­man
October 27, 2014
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Life and Loss in the Shad­ow of the Holo­caust: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Untold Story
Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey

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