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Essay What’s Your Book About? Jessica Lamb-Shapiro has written for the New York Times Magazine, Time, and The Believer. Her book, Promise Land: My Journey through America’s Self-Help Culture, is now… Jessica Lamb-Shapiro August 19, 2014
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
Essay Inside the Pigeonhole Posted by Nat BernsteinThursday evening Stephanie Feldman, Liana Finck, and Boris Fishman sat down with a microphone and a moderator at Greenlight Bookstore… Nat Bernstein August 10, 2014
Essay Naomi, Ruth, and the South Earlier this week, Lenore Weiss wrote about Rabbi Levi Selwyn and Torah “Koshering” and asked Rabbi Selwyn a few question about the process. Her most recent… Lenore Weiss August 8, 2014
