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Essay Stumbling on Jewish Suppliers to the Confederacy Adam D. Mendelsohn is Director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the College of… Adam D. Mendelsohn December 16, 2014
Essay Woody Guthrie’s Hanukkah Songs Rabbi Joshua Eli Plaut, PhD is the author of A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis the Season to Be Jewish (Rutgers University Press). Visit his web site and seasonal… Rabbi Joshua Eli Plaut December 15, 2014
Essay How to Write about Moving a Mountain Earlier this week, Matthue Roth wrote about why authors like to torture people they love. He has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting… Matthue Roth December 11, 2014
Essay Where Should We Have Gone? Earlier this week, Adam Rovner wrote about the top five alternative Jewish homelands that he didn’t explore in his new book, In the Shadow of Zion: Promised… Adam Rovner December 10, 2014
Essay Fiddler at Fifty by Edward ShapiroIt has been fifty years since Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway on Tuesday, September 22, 1964 at New York City’s Imperial Theater. To mark… Edward Shapiro December 9, 2014
Essay Why Authors Like to Torture People We Love Matthue Roth’s first book, Never Mind the Goldbergs, was a NYPL Best Book for the Teen Age and an ALA Best Books nominee. His latest is The Gobblings,… Matthue Roth December 9, 2014
