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Essay Joanna Rakoff: The Smell of Old England In her last blog, Joanna Rakoff wrote about a family “more identifiably old American than Jewish.“ Here in the U.S., Margaret Drabble’s novels are… Joanna Rakoff July 29, 2009 Essay Joanna Rakoff: Parallel Lives In her last blog, Joanna Rakoff wrote about how, in her own way, Jane Austen wrote about being an undercover Jewish writer. Laurie Colwin was, in… Joanna Rakoff July 28, 2009 Essay Joanna Rakoff: The French Revolution Joanna Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age and former editor of Nextbook.org, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish… Joanna Rakoff July 27, 2009 Essay Ariel Sabar: A Time to Put Aside the Armor Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAriel Sabar, author of My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, wrote an essay for last… JBC Staff July 20, 2009 News Holocaust Novel Coming Soon from Author of Life of Pie Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLife of Pi author Yann Martel just sold the rights to his third book to Spiegel & Grau. The new book is an allegory about the… JBC Staff July 20, 2009 Essay David Plotz: Why Is Judaism Such a Failure? In his last blog, David Plotz, author of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single… David Plotz July 17, 2009 Pagination Previous page Newer Current page494 Next page Older Pagination First page 1 … Page492 Page493 Current page494 Page495 Page496 … Last page 508
Essay Joanna Rakoff: The Smell of Old England In her last blog, Joanna Rakoff wrote about a family “more identifiably old American than Jewish.“ Here in the U.S., Margaret Drabble’s novels are… Joanna Rakoff July 29, 2009
Essay Joanna Rakoff: Parallel Lives In her last blog, Joanna Rakoff wrote about how, in her own way, Jane Austen wrote about being an undercover Jewish writer. Laurie Colwin was, in… Joanna Rakoff July 28, 2009
Essay Joanna Rakoff: The French Revolution Joanna Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age and former editor of Nextbook.org, is guest-blogging for MyJewishLearning and the Jewish… Joanna Rakoff July 27, 2009
Essay Ariel Sabar: A Time to Put Aside the Armor Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAriel Sabar, author of My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, wrote an essay for last… JBC Staff July 20, 2009
News Holocaust Novel Coming Soon from Author of Life of Pie Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterLife of Pi author Yann Martel just sold the rights to his third book to Spiegel & Grau. The new book is an allegory about the… JBC Staff July 20, 2009
Essay David Plotz: Why Is Judaism Such a Failure? In his last blog, David Plotz, author of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single… David Plotz July 17, 2009