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Essay Imagining Buddy & Holly The following is a redacted version of My Father’s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things: True Stories author Joseph Skibell original essay for Jewish Book… Joseph Skibell October 30, 2015
Essay Go by the Country Earlier this week, Rita Lakin shared what inspired her comedy mystery novels about 80-year-olds solving crime in Florida. She is blogging here all week as part of the… Rita Lakin October 21, 2015
Nonfiction The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer Rita Lakin
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
Nonfiction Hi Hitler!: How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Recommended Reading Capturing a Vanished World: Last Folio by Yuri Dojc & Katya Krausova Posted by Becca KantorLast Folio: A Photographic Memory offers a haunting glimpse into the traces of vanished Jewish life in Slovakia, the first country to… Becca Kantor July 2, 2015
Essay We’re Living in a Golden Age of Jewish American Art & Don’t Really Know It Earlier this week, Matthew Baigell wrote about anti-Semitic images of Jews in American humor magazines and social concern and left politics in Jewish American art.… Matthew Baigell July 1, 2015
Essay Prejudice Porn: Images of Jews in American Art, 1880 – 1940 Earlier this week, Matthew Baigell wrote about social concern and left politics in Jewish American art. He is the author of a recently published book on the topic… Matthew Baigell June 30, 2015
Essay Social Concern and Left Politics in Jewish American Art Matthew Baigell is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous books, including American Artists,… Matthew Baigell June 29, 2015
