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Noam Sienna is the author of “A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969.”
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A treasure trove of LGBTQ texts from two millennia of Jewish history

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky June 29, 2020July 8, 2020
Trudie Strobel stitching (Photo/Ann Elliott  Cutting);  Detail from “Four Embroideries of Trees in Four Seasons (Autumn)” by Trudie Strobel.
Posted inBooks

Threads of memory: Survivor embroiders pain into beauty

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 24, 2020
Victoria Lee's young adult fiction Feverwake series began with 2019's "The Fever King."
Posted inBooks

In Victoria Lee’s prescient YA novels, young people survive pandemic and fascism

Rebecca Landau by Rebecca Landau June 22, 2020July 9, 2021
(Graphic/JTA-Kveller)
Posted inCulture

A Jewish anti-racist reading list for children of all ages

Lior Zaltzman by Lior Zaltzman and JTA June 11, 2020
Posted inOff the Shelf

Daughters of Holocaust survivors uncover old stories in new memoirs

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman June 4, 2020July 8, 2020
Emily L. Quint Freeman (Photo/Carlos Zarate)
Posted inBooks

‘Failure to Appear’: At 73, this Vietnam-era anti-war fugitive is telling her story of 20 years on the run

by Liz Harris June 2, 2020July 8, 2020
German immigrant Edward Kusel opened photo galleries and variety shops in California’s Central Valley. (Photo/Courtesy Arcadia Publishing)
Posted inBooks

New book tells Jewish stories of the Gold Rush

by Liz Harris May 21, 2020July 8, 2020
Evan Wolkenstein is the author of "Turtle Boy." (Photo/Fred Greene; detail from book cover)
Posted inBooks

Q&A: JCHS teacher discusses his debut novel, ‘Turtle Boy’

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 20, 2020May 20, 2020
From the cover of “House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family” by Hadley Freeman
Posted inHistory

Two authors delight in the remnants of generations past

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 8, 2020
Shel Silverstein's houseboat, the "Evil Eye." (Photo/JTA-Christian Klugmann)
Posted inBooks

Shel Silverstein lived in a houseboat in Sausalito for 10 years. It can be yours for $783,000.

by JTA and J. Staff May 5, 2020

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