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Category Archives: Jewish Literature
Who By Fire
I’m enjoying this new novel by Diana Spechler. Was Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach the epitome of Jewish love? I always thought so until the past few years. From Diana’s new book: A wise Jew says: "And it’s not your fault you … Continue reading
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Tagged jewish girls, jewish women, new novel, nineteen years, penitents, yosi
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First Time Novelist Diana Spechler Coming To Town Nov. 13
November 13, 2008: Diesel, A Book Store In Brentwood, 7:00 p.m. 225 26th Street, Santa Monica, CA Diana Spechler Diana Spechler’s Facebook Page Diana Spechler’s MySpace Page From Harper Collins: Bits and Ash were children when the kidnapping of their … Continue reading
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Tagged desperate attempt, family rift, harper collins, mother ellie, orthodox jew, santa monica ca
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XXX-Communicated Shunned Again
Here’s the press release from Ari Goldman‘s wife Shira Dicker: New York, NY. January 9, 2008 – With winners in twenty categories hailing from six countries this year, the 57th Annual National Jewish Book Awards takes on an international flavor. … Continue reading
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‘Bernard Malamud: A Writer
Lee Siegel writes in the New York Times: Malamud didn’t need to copulate his way to freedom from Mommy. As a little boy, he had saved his own mother from a suicide attempt; she spent the next two years in … Continue reading
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Shadows on the Hudson
Over the past six weeks, I’ve read a dozen books on or by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Shadows on the Hudson was the latest. I feel like Singer repeated himself: * The protagonist becomes vegetarian * Tires of the modern world … Continue reading
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Jewish Lit Dying?
Monica Osborne writes for Jewcy.com: In his review of Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases, William Deresiewicz says of the state of American Judaism: My own experience tells me that American Judaism has long … Continue reading
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