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Howard Freedman

Howard Freedman

Howard Freedman is the director of the Jewish Community Library in San Francisco. All books mentioned in his column may be borrowed from the library.

From the cover art for "On Her Own" by Lihi Lapid
Posted inOff the Shelf

Mother and motherland face neglect in Israeli writer Lihi Lapid’s ‘On Her Own’

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman September 11, 2024November 21, 2024
Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur (Claude Truong-Ngoc/Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inOff the Shelf

‘Living with Our Dead’: A French rabbi reflects on death in a powerful bestseller, now out in English

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 17, 2024July 31, 2024
Gratz Cohen grew up in a slaveholding Jewish family in Georgia and fought for the Confederacy. (Photo/Courtesy Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site)
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S.F. author reckons with Southern Jews’ slave ownership in ‘Liberty Street’

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 15, 2024May 16, 2024
From the cover of "Stockholm" by Noa Yedlin
Posted inBooks

Friends hope for benefits by concealing a death in Israeli novelist’s dark comedy

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 28, 2024May 2, 2024
From the cover of “Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins”
Posted inBooks

‘Why the Bible Began’: New book marvels at the Hebrew Bible’s formation

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 23, 2024May 2, 2024
Author Rosa Lowinger (Photo/Scarlett Freund)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Art conservator turns critical eye on Cuban Jewish family in memoir

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 5, 2023
Posted inOff the Shelf

Israeli author Eshkol Nevo’s novel in three parts explores yearning and betrayal

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 2, 2023August 2, 2023
From the cover of "The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants" by Orlando Ortega-Medina
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‘Fitful Sleep of Immigrants’: Novel set in S.F. peels back the layers of a gay Jew’s psyche

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 19, 2023May 19, 2023
the cover of "The World And All That it Holds"
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‘The World and All That It Holds’ traces the tragic journey of a gay Jewish refugee from Sarajevo

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 24, 2023
From the cover of “Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish Revival” by Geneviève Zubrzycki
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New book explores ‘magical philosemitism’ in modern-day Poland

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 30, 2023January 31, 2023

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