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Have you started your reading list for 2011 yet? If not, we have the first one for your list! 2008 Sami Rohr Prize winner Lucette Lagnado’s new memoir has just been announced: The Arrogant Years: A Young Girl’s Quest for Her Lost Youth. Her new title will juxtapose her own coming of age in New York with that of her mother in Cairo, revealing how the choices she made meant both a liberation from old world traditions and the loss of a comforting and familiar community. If you wanted to know more about her mother in The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, now is your chance! We’ll provide more information once the book is published…be patient..only 2 years to go…
Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Naomi Firestone-Teeter is the CEO of the Jewish Book Council. Prior to becoming executive director and then CEO, she served as founding editor of the JBC website and managing editor of Jewish Book World. Naomi sits on the board of Jewish Creativity International.Naomi was named to the New York Jewish Week’s 2019 “36 Under 36” and Algemeiner’s 2018 list of the 100 people positively influencing Jewish life and was included on the Global Jewish 100 list by Izzy in 2020. She graduated from Emory University with degrees in English and Art History and, in addition, studied at University College London. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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