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Detail of the cover of "Where Is Poppy?" by Caroline Kusin Pritchard
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New children’s books on navigating loss, illness and race

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 23, 2024July 23, 2024
Among the many recent controversies in the literary world was a protest against the free-speech group PEN America for inviting Mayim Bialik, a pro-Israel actor, to participate in an event. (Photo/JTA-Amanda Edwards-Getty Images)
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New effort underway to track antisemitism in the literary world, where anti-Israel sentiment is widespread

Philissa Cramer by Andrew Lapin and Philissa Cramer February 20, 2024February 20, 2024
A Black Panthers protest in Tel Aviv, 1971. The large sign in the middle reads "Golda, teach us Yiddish." (Photo/National Library of Israel)
Posted inBooks

New book fills history gap about Israel’s Mizrahi-led Black Panther movement

by Dan Pine February 15, 2024May 2, 2024
Actor and author Brett Gelman is best known for his role as Murray in "Stranger Things." (Photo/Netflix)
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S.F. bookshop: ‘Stranger Things’ actor’s ‘intemperate’ remarks led to cancellation

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten February 12, 2024May 2, 2024
The slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" is seen over the gateway to the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. (Photo/Matthias Köhne via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
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What we keep getting wrong about the Holocaust

by Julia M. Klein February 8, 2024
Don Peretz (second from left), who would later become an American Jewish Committee official studying Arab refugee affairs, in Acre while volunteering to aid displaced Arabs in February 1949. (Photo/Courtesy Deborah Peretz)
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When ‘nice Jewish boys and girls’ first took up the cause of Palestinian rights

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 29, 2024January 29, 2024
National Jewish Book Awards for the best books of 2023 were presented to works by, from left, Sabrina Orah Mark, Ruth Madievsky, Jeremy Eichler and James McBride.
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Critic’s account of classical music after the Holocaust is named Jewish book of the year

by Andrew Silow-Carroll January 24, 2024January 26, 2024
From the cover of “Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and Its Origins”
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‘Why the Bible Began’: New book marvels at the Hebrew Bible’s formation

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 23, 2024May 2, 2024
Elie Wiesel sits at a desk
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Citing risk to Elie Wiesel’s ‘Night,’ judge blocks key parts of Iowa book ban law

by Andrew Lapin January 3, 2024
Detail of the cover of "Am Yisrael Chai: Essays, Poems, and Prayers"
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Post-Oct. 7 anthology edited by ex-Berkeley rabbi testifies to Jewish resilience

Lane Igoudin by Lane Igoudin December 28, 2023May 2, 2024

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