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  • Must-Reads for Jewish Women
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    Must-Reads for Jewish Women
    Must-Reads for Jewish Women

    The novels and stories that capture our imaginations and are close to our hearts.

    The novels and stories that capture our imaginations and are close to our hearts.

  • Cold War Paranoia in ‘The Vixen’
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    Cold War Paranoia in ‘The Vixen’
    Cold War Paranoia in ‘The Vixen’

    In Francine Prose’s latest novel, her protagonist finds himself at the crossroads of lies, love and espionage, navigating his Jewish identity in a world of ‘unassailable privilege.’

    In Francine Prose’s latest novel, her protagonist finds himself at the crossroads of lies, love and espionage, navigating his Jewish identity in a world of ‘unassailable privilege.’

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Books: Wouk’s Latest, Plus a Biography of Ariel Sharon
The Lawgiver: A Novel by Herman Wouk. (Simon & Schuster, 256 pp. $25.99) Herman Wouk’s new novel, The Lawgiver, will not be ranked among his best but
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Books: Families and Other Complications
Fiction The World Without You by Joshua Henkin. (Pantheon, 336 pp. $25.95) Joshua Henkin’s third novel, The World Without You, deals with a large, complicated Jewish family
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Books: A Talk With Marvin Fletcher
by Adam Dickter
Martin Fletcher is a London-born journalist who has spent his career reporting from the world’s hot spots, including Belgium, Israel, Rwanda, Kosovo and Rhodesia. Initially
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A Profile of Author Edith Pearlman
by Rachel Schwartzberg
Edith Pearlman compares the Boston suburb that she calls home—Brookline, Massachusetts—to Paris. It has “many of the charms” of the French metropolis, she says, “but
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2012 Harold U. Ribalow Prize
by Edith Pearlman
Jay’s grandson—his only child’s only child—married a young woman born in Kyoto. Mika had an enchanting chin, like a little teaspoon. She wore sweet pastel
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Fiction: Poetic License
by Kathryn Ruth Bloom
There was no traffic along Ardmore Road, but Sarah Rabinowitz carefully signaled the turn onto Cornus Plaza, slowed and double-checked to make sure Irving Clurman
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Books: Fight or Flight
Fiction Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 182 pp. $22) In Scenes from Village Life , Amos Oz paints
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Books for Kids, from Toddlers to Teens
A Hebrew-speaking dinosaur, a mischievous young wizard, a Jewish boy training to be a boxer in Nazi Germany and cheerful mitzva-teaching meerkats are but a

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