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Nonfiction Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Essay Addressing the American-Russian-Jewish Identity Crisis, Camera in Hand Alina Bliumis received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy… Alina Bliumis May 11, 2015
Nonfiction Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art, 1880 – 1940 Matthew Baigell
Nonfiction Transnational Traditions: New Perspectives on American Jewish History Ava F. Kahn and Adam D. Mendelsohn, ed.
Nonfiction The B‑Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song Ben Yagoda
Essay Communicating the Beauty Earlier this week, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall wrote about how on how pluralism strengthens Judaism and shared the backstory behind her newest book, The Myth of the… Roberta Rosenthal Kwall March 20, 2015
Nonfiction That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South Caroline E. Light
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Immigrants Against the State Posted by Nat BernsteinIt’s been a while since we featured a nonfiction title on The ProsenPeople’s Book Cover of the Week series, so how’s this for… Nat Bernstein February 10, 2015
Poetry The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry Deborah Ager & M. E. Silverman, eds.
Nonfiction Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience Kerri P. Steinberg
