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Children’s Every Picture Tells a Story: Illustrated Torah Verses and Commentary for Every Age, Volume One: Bereishis Chaim Natan Firszt
Essay A Historical Look at Jews in the Work of Shakespeare Lois Leveen is the author of Juliet’s Nurse and The Secrets of Mary Bowser. She has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe… Lois Leveen October 1, 2014
Nonfiction Holocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich
Nonfiction My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War Anne Sinclair; Shaun Whiteside, trans.
Essay The Comings and Goings of Songs in “Fiddler on the Roof” Earlier this week Barbara Isenberg wrote about reminiscing with Bel Kaufman about Sholem Aleichem. She is the author of Tradition!, is an award winning journalist… Barbara Isenberg September 4, 2014
Nonfiction Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical Barbara Isenberg
Essay How I Came to Write Jewish Artists and the Bible in 20th-Century America Earlier this week, Samantha Baskind wrote about the artist Jack Levine and about some of the artists she interviewed for Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists.… Samantha Baskind August 15, 2014
Essay Finding Jack Levine Earlier this week, Samantha Baskind wrote about some of the artists she interviewed for Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists. In the first chapter of her newest… Samantha Baskind August 13, 2014
Essay Interviewing the Artists I Write About Samantha Baskind is Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University. Her most recent book is Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century… Samantha Baskind August 11, 2014
Nonfiction Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel Yaron Shemer
Nonfiction The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939 – 1945 Wladyslaw Szpilman
