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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.

Covers of "The House of Fragile Things" by James McAuley and "The Vanished Collection" by Pauline Baer de Perignon
Posted inBooks

New books: Two portraits of French Jewish art collectors and their wartime travails

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 14, 2022
From “When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers” by New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein
Posted inOff the Shelf

New Yorker cartoonist brings to life lost Yiddish essays by European teens of 1930s

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 17, 2021December 20, 2021
From the cover of Rutu Modan's new graphic novel, "Tunnels."
Posted inCulture

Dig into Jerusalem’s subterranean history with new nonfiction and graphic novel

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman November 18, 2021November 23, 2021
From the cover of “Jerusalem Beach: Stories” by Iddo Gefen
Posted inOff the Shelf

New short story collections: Imaginative fairy tales and affecting Israeli tales

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman October 20, 2021
From the cover of “A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe” by Marek Tuszewicki
Posted inOff the Shelf

New books: The nearly forgotten world of Jewish folk healing

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman September 10, 2021
Ethel Rosenberg under arrest
Posted inOff the Shelf

70 years later, Ethel Rosenberg reemerges in a new biography and novel

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 17, 2021August 17, 2021
From the cover of "The Passenger" by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Posted inOff the Shelf

Looking back on Nazi era in newly reissued novels from 1930s

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 13, 2021July 13, 2021
A statue of Stalin stands out on an abstract background of blue and pink.
Posted inOff the Shelf

Jewish writers with Soviet roots have deep stories to tell

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 15, 2021June 15, 2021
From the cover of "Antiquities" by Cynthia Ozick.
Posted inBooks

Dwell in the past with 2 new books, including Cynthia Ozick’s latest

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 12, 2021June 9, 2021
Posted inOff the Shelf

New books: Grandkids of Holocaust survivors grapple with trauma and silence

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman April 7, 2021June 9, 2021

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