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Essay When a Picture Speaks a Thousand Words Earlier this week, Helen Maryles Shankman questioned whether her fictional stories trivialize the Holocaust. She is guest blogging all week as a Visiting Scribe… Helen Maryles Shankman February 4, 2016
Essay Booklessness Earlier this week, Stolen Words author Rabbi Mark Glickman wrote about the Jewish community’s midcentury dispute over restituted libraries. He is guest blogging all… Mark Glickman February 3, 2016
Essay The Battle for the Books With the release of Stolen Words: The Nazi Plunder of Jewish Books, author Rabbi Mark Glickman is guest blogging all week as part of the Visiting Scribe series here on The… Mark Glickman February 1, 2016
Essay Trivializing the Holocaust? Helen Maryles Shankman is the author of In the Land of Armadillos, a collection of eight stories set in Wlodawa, Poland during World War II. She is guest blogging all… Helen Maryles Shankman February 1, 2016
Essay There Are Never No Jewish Books Earlier this week, Gavriel Savit mused on the mysticism of uncertainty, the corporeality of God, and the incongruous narrative of the Hebrew Bible. With the… Gavriel Savit January 29, 2016
Essay Reconciling the Inconsistent Word of God Earlier this week, author Gavriel Savit introduced the spiritual mysticism contained in uncertainty and pondered the corporeal existence of God. With the… Gavriel Savit January 28, 2016
