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Nonfiction Traumatic Verses: On Poetry in German from the Concentration Camps, 1933 – 1945 Andres Nader
Nonfiction Sephardic American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy Diane Matza, ed.
Nonfiction The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period Bezalel Bar-Kochva
Nonfiction Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, and L. Scott Lerner, eds.
Nonfiction Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe Shachar M. Pinsker
Nonfiction Yiddish Literature in America: 1870 – 2000 Emanuel S. Goldsmith; Barnett Zumoff, trans.
Nonfiction American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Michael Weingrad; Alan Mintz, fwd.
Nonfiction Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic Michael Scammell
Essay Imagine You Don’t Know How To Read A Novel In his last posts, Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, the author of Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities, wrote… Elie Kaunfer April 9, 2010
Essay The Curious Case of Professor Barabtarlo Michael Idov is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and the author of the novel Ground Up. In his previous posts, Michael wrote about… Michael Idov December 18, 2009
Video Philip Roth on the future of the novel Posted by Naomi Firestone-Teeter Tina Brown of The Daily Beast asks Philip Roth about the future of the novel: Check out the video and let us know what you… JBC Staff October 23, 2009
Essay What Is Jewish Literature? In her last post, Ellen Frankel looked at how to make the Bible PG. She is guest-blogging all week for MyJewishLearning and JBC. What… Ellen Frankel October 21, 2009
Essay Joanna Rakoff: The Smell of Old England In her last blog, Joanna Rakoff wrote about a family “more identifiably old American than Jewish.“ Here in the U.S., Margaret Drabble’s novels are… Joanna Rakoff July 29, 2009
Essay Joanna Rakoff: The French Revolution Joanna Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age and former editor of Nextbook.org, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish… Joanna Rakoff July 27, 2009