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Essay ‘My Fair Lady’ in Hebrew? Aviya Kushner is the author of The Grammar of God, a memoir of her Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible. She will be blogging here all week for the Jewish… Aviya Kushner September 8, 2015
Essay Fragments Sasha Abramsky has been blogging here all week on The ProsenPeople’s Visiting Scribe series. Earlier this week, he wrote about the continuity of reading across Jewish… Sasha Abramsky September 3, 2015
Essay Memory Games Sasha Abramsky is the author of The House of Twenty Thousand Books, a memoir exploring his grandparents’ lives through their vast literary collection in London.… Sasha Abramsky August 31, 2015
Essay Diana Bletter’s Top 11 Jewish Quotes for Writers Earlier this week, Diana Bletter wrote about being not just a writer or a Jewish writer, but a Jewish woman writer. Her novel A Remarkable Kindness is… Diana Bletter August 26, 2015
Essay A Scribe Among Scribes Diana Bletter is the author of A Remarkable Kindness and lives in Israel. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe series.I was… Diana Bletter August 24, 2015
Essay Of Lutis and Looters: History as the Sister of Fiction Earlier this week, Parnaz Foroutan wrote about her childhood determination to learn English after seeing a girl who looked just like her on the cover of Anne… Parnaz Foroutan August 19, 2015