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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
the title superimposed over a blue-tinted image of a road stretching into the distance at night
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S.F. author’s short, short stories are long on emotion

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 27, 2018January 9, 2019
Susan Koret (right), San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Joseph Koret at the opening of Cassidy’s Western Outfitters on Market Street in 1981.
Posted inPhilanthropy

Joseph Koret biography reveals the man behind the fortune

by Liz Harris November 14, 2018January 9, 2019
Illustration from “When I Was Big and You Were Little” by Rebecca Silverstein
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S.F. artist’s first kids’ book is a yawner — in a good way

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 14, 2018January 9, 2019
Marmer wearing glasses and smiling
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Reading by accomplished poet/writer/critic Jake Marmer

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 13, 2018
From the cover of "Lake Success" by Gary Shteyngart
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In new novels, Jewish characters navigate a complex world

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman November 6, 2018January 9, 2019
Ed Zerin
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Ed Zerin, the 98-year-old who wrote the book on “Jewish San Francisco”

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 24, 2018October 24, 2018
From the cover of "Eyeballing Big Croc" by Vivien Zielen
Posted inAuthor! Author!

New memoir: Nepalese royalty, the Six-Day War and Passover in Japan

Laura Pall by Laura Paull October 17, 2018January 9, 2019

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