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Nonfiction After One-Hundred-and-Twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition Hillel Halkin
Essay Beautiful Because It Simply Is Barbara Kreiger is the author of The Dead Sea and the Jordan River, a chronicle of the natural and human history of two of the Middle East’s most iconic bodies… Barbara Kreiger April 27, 2016
Essay Discovering the Dead Sea from a Different, Not-So-Distant Shore Barbara Kreiger is the author of The Dead Sea and the Jordan River, a chronicle of the natural and human history of two of the Middle East’s most iconic bodies… Barbara Kreiger April 25, 2016
Nonfiction 1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front S. A. An-sky; Polly Zavadivker, trans.
Essay Setting a Story in the Shell of a Rust Belt Boomtown Earlier this week, Kim Brooks divulged the little-known American history of World War II before Pearl Harbor, which inspired her novel The Houseguest. Kim is blogging… Kim Brooks April 13, 2016
Essay It Isn’t Often You Come Across an Eighth-Generation Israeli Jew Sarit Yishai-Levi is the author of four non-fiction books and the bestselling novel The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem. Sarit is blogging here all week as part of the… Sarit Yishai-Levi April 4, 2016
Nonfiction Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Story of My Life Vladimir Jabotinsky; Brain Horowitz and Leonid Katsis, eds.
