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Forget Russia: A Review
In her debut novel, poet and memoirist L. Bordetsky-Williams mines her own family history to present the little-known story of reverse migration.

In her debut novel, poet and memoirist L. Bordetsky-Williams mines her own family history to present the little-known story of reverse migration.
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People Love Dead Jews
At its core, People Love Dead Jews is a meditation on time and identity in which Horn ultimately reasserts the vitality of Jewish life.

At its core, People Love Dead Jews is a meditation on time and identity in which Horn ultimately reasserts the vitality of Jewish life.
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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.

It is not surprising that Marek Halter was drawn to write about the colorful but enigmatic historical figure of David Reubeni. Halter, a 71-year-old Polish

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Profile: Najem Wali

by Shoshana London Sappir

This Iraqi-born author fled the tyranny of his homeland as a young man, finding freedom of expression and opportunity abroad. “There is one question that

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Books: And Now—Women of the Book

Rashi and Ibn Ezra, make room.The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, newly published by Women of Reform Judaism and URJ Press, offers 1,400 pages of

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Books: Compassion, Speculation and Love

Fiction 1940 by Jay Neugeboren. (Two Dollar Radio, 274 pp. $15) In his new novel, his first in over two decades, Jay Neugeboren has performed an

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Books: A Complicated Journey of Rescue

Perhaps no blow is as devastating to a parent as the death of a child. So when Lillian Leyb, the protagonist of Amy Bloom’s novel