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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
A screenshot of the viral "Is your fav author a zionist" Google spreadsheet shows some of the reasons that the document's creators deemed writers pro- and anti-Israel. (Screenshot)
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‘Is your fav author a zionist???’: Viral list reignites antisemitism fears in the literary world

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer May 10, 2024
Nathan Thrall (right) discusses his book, "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama," with moderator Mark Danner at the JCCSF on Oct. 30, 2023. (Photo/Screenshot)
Posted inBooks

Bay Area native Nathan Thrall wins Pulitzer; S.F. reporter Peter Waldman named finalist

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 6, 2024June 24, 2024
(From left) Stanford journalism lecturer Janine Zacharia, UCLA students Michaela Esposito, Ann Pei, Gillian Smith and Maia Gelerter, and Stanford history professor Sarah Abreyava Stein, the team that brought "With Many Miracles" to publication. (Photo/Courtesy)
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How Stanford and UCLA students and professors brought a Belgian Holocaust survivor’s story to light

by Sue Fishkoff April 29, 2024May 2, 2024
Jews evacuate the Old City of Jerusalem after Arab riots in 1936. (Photo/Wikipedia)
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‘Palestine 1936’: New book uses the past to offer hope for the future

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 29, 2024April 29, 2024
Israeli police arrest writer Ayelet Waldman at the Erez Crossing, April 26, 2024. (Photo/Emily Glick)
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Berkeley author Ayelet Waldman arrested during protest near Gaza border

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten April 26, 2024April 26, 2024
Rossi now and, on the cover of her memoir, during her time in high school (before being shipped out to Crown Heights). (Photo/She Writes Press)
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‘Hiya Rebbe!’ How a ‘lowly Orthodox,’ punk rock lesbian ended up in Hasidic Crown Heights

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar April 25, 2024April 25, 2024
Trina Robbins (center) with Jan Duursema (left) and Carol Kalish on the "Women in Comics" panel at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. (Photo/Alan Light CC BY 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Trina Robbins, 85, the first woman to draw a full issue of ‘Wonder Woman’

by JTA and J. Staff April 24, 2024April 24, 2024
Detail of an illustration from "The Awful Omen," A. J. Sass's contribution to the "On All Other Nights" anthology. (Illustration/Shannon Hochman)
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Oakland writer A. J. Sass uses the afikomen hunt to explore a nonbinary child’s hopes and anxieties

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(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 17, 2024May 2, 2024
Joan Nathan at a National Yiddish Book Center event in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2011. (Photo/JTA-Dina Rudick-The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Posted inJewish Life

Joan Nathan, pioneering Jewish food maven, dishes all in her new autobiography

by Rachel Ringler April 15, 2024April 15, 2024

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