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Nonfiction Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing Since the 1980’s Janet Handler Burstein
Essay Jewish People and Books Earlier this week, Yehuda Kurtzer wrote about a recent Commentary article by Jack Wertheimer and the transmission of memory. He has been blogging here all week… Yehuda Kurtzer June 8, 2012
Nonfiction The Association of Jewish Libraries Guide to Yiddish Short Stories Bennett Muraskin
Fiction Scribblers on the Roof: Contemporary American Jewish Fiction Melvin Jules Bukiet; David G. Roskies, eds.
Nonfiction The Jewish Story Finder: A Guide To 363 Tales Listing Subjects and Sources Sharon Barcan Elswit
Nonfiction Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination Mark Krupnick; Jean K. Carney; Mark Shechner, eds.
Nonfiction The Jewish Values Finder: A Guide to Values in Jewish Children’s Literature Linda R. Silver, for the Association of Jewish Libraries
Nonfiction Recovering “Yiddishland”: Threshold Moments in American Literature Merle L. Bachman
Nonfiction Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics David Grossman Jessica Cohen
Nonfiction Arguing The Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse Justin Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint, and Rachel Rubinstein, eds.
Nonfiction Mediterranean Passages: Readings from Dido to Derrida Miriam Cooke, Erdag Goknar, Grant Parker, eds.
Nonfiction One Hundred Great Jewish Books: Three Millennia of Jewish Conversation Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
