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Sheldon Teitelbaum at the 2018 ICon Festival in Tel Aviv. (Photo/Roni Sofer)
Posted inBooks

‘Zion’s Fiction’: Meet the great compiler of Israeli sci-fi

by Valerie Estelle Frankel September 22, 2021September 28, 2021
The author's grandmother’s French residence permit from 1914 includes a spelling of her husband’s original name, Karolchouk, before he and his brothers changed it to Carroll.
Posted inBooks

No one lost their Jewish last name at Ellis Island. But we gained a safe haven.

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA September 15, 2021
From the cover of “Recipe for Disaster” by Aimee Lucido
Posted inAuthor! Author!

‘Recipe for Disaster’: New middle-grade title gets a ‘Book Mitzvah’ debut event

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten September 14, 2021July 23, 2024
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
The author (on his mother’s lap) with the family in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1948.
Posted inBooks

New memoir: Grieving his mother while the towers were falling

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 9, 2021
From the cover of the first issue of "Whistle."
Posted inComics

She’s 16. She’s Jewish. She’s Gotham’s newest superhero.

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward September 2, 2021
Sam Blitzstein’s copy of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," opened to the most dramatic page.
Posted inCulture

An oral history of the most epic summer camp prank of all time: a Harry Potter spoiler

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward September 1, 2021
Rabbi Sheldon Lewis in uniform in Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Posted inBooks

Rabbi recounts heartrending year in Vietnam in new memoir

Alix Wall by Alix Wall August 26, 2021August 26, 2021
Jack Hirschman reads from the Italian edition of his book “The Arcanes.” (Photo/Marco Cinque)
Posted inObituaries

Jack Hirschman, S.F. poet laureate and ‘bad Jew,’ dies at 87

by Patricia Corrigan August 24, 2021August 24, 2021
Author Sandy Shefrin Rabin (top row, third from right) in a 1965 class photo from  I. L. Peretz, the same school that the protagonist of her debut novel attends.
Posted inBooks

Marin doctor’s debut novel is about a Jewish girl in Manitoba (just like she was)

by Liz Harris August 23, 2021August 23, 2021

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