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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.

Detail from the cover of "Bombay Brides," a short story collection by Esther David
Posted inOff the Shelf

New short story collections are dispatches from outposts of Jewish life

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 22, 2019July 25, 2019
Posted inOff the Shelf

New books: Arab Jews, Latino Jews and other complicated identities

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 25, 2019June 26, 2019
From the cover of "Prince of the Press" by Joshua Teplitsky
Posted inBooks

Books on books: uncovering the role of libraries in Jewish history

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 29, 2019May 29, 2019
the covers of both books superimposed over a photo of the Israeli flag
Posted inBooks, Columns, Culture, Holidays, Yom HaAtzmaut, Off the Shelf

Two new books give Zionist feminists a well-deserved place in history

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 3, 2019May 3, 2019
Nathan Englander's new novel is “Kaddish.com.” (Illustration/JTA; Cover/Alfred Knopf; Photo/Joshua Meier)
Posted inBooks

Spiritual disquiet and atonement in Nathan Englander’s ‘Kaddish.com’

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 28, 2019December 2, 2020
colorful abstract shapes with the title of the book in bold white letters
Posted inBooks

New memoirs explore home, food and family history

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman March 5, 2019March 6, 2019
From the cover of “Sara Berman’s Closet” by Maira Kalman and her son Alex
Posted inUncategorized

How our parents keep telling us who we are, even after they’re gone

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 30, 2019January 31, 2019
A page from the new graphic novel "The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt"
Posted inOff the Shelf

Tale of Kafka’s writings and a graphic novel on Arendt’s life show intellectual world destroyed by Nazis

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 8, 2019January 9, 2019
two hands pry into a steaming-hot pita
Posted inOff the Shelf

The best Jewish books of 2018: feminism, seltzer, race and beyond

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 19, 2018January 9, 2019
an evocative stylized image in yellow and blue of two silhouetted figures standing under a shadowy colonnade. in the backgound, there are giraffes and a gleaming white city
Posted inOff the Shelf

Sci-fi visions of future and alternate Israels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 10, 2018January 9, 2019

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