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Author Nicole Krauss (Photo/Gani Riskin)
Posted inCulture

Jews in flux ponder home, homeland in new Nicole Krauss novel

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller September 15, 2017September 13, 2017
Art from the new graphic novel based on "Diary of Anne Frank"
Posted inCulture

Anne Frank’s diary is now a comic book

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz September 11, 2017
Elizabeth Rosner (Photo/Judy Dater)
Posted inCulture

In ‘Survivor Café,’ this author and daughter of Holocaust survivors isn’t ready to let go

Alix Wall by Alix Wall September 3, 2017September 6, 2017
From the cover of "An Egyptian Novel"
Posted inColumns

New tales of Jewish families in Ireland, England, Middle East

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 29, 2017August 28, 2017
Michael Twitty gathers ingredients for okra soup and barbecue cottontail rabbit at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo/Courtesy Michael Twitty)
Posted inCulture

Black historian of southern cooking brings side of Jewish identity to S.F.

by Liz Harris August 21, 2017July 25, 2022
From the cover of "Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic" by Jason Turbow
Posted inAuthor! Author!

Sci-fi thriller; Shabbat as ‘oasis’; the ‘Dynastic, Bombastic’ Oakland A’s of the ’70s

by Liz Harris August 13, 2017August 17, 2017
From the cover of "Ways to Disappear" by Idra Novey
Posted inColumns

End-of-summer reading that’s not too heavy, not too light

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman August 4, 2017August 7, 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal
Posted inArt, Books, Columns, Culture, Film, Celebrity Jews, TV, TV & Film

Herman Wouk on CBS; the Jews go to Romania; Bay Area athletes drafted

by Nate Bloom July 19, 2017March 23, 2018
From the cover art for "Strange Contagion: Inside the Surprising Science of Infectious Behaviors and Viral Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves" by Lee Daniel Kravetz
Posted inArt, Books, Columns, Culture, Author! Author!

The mystery of Palo Alto high school suicides; and the ‘New Science of Success’

by Liz Harris July 6, 2017July 7, 2017
From the cover art for "Books of the People: Revisiting Classic Works of Jewish Thought"
Posted inArt, Books, Columns, Culture, Off the Shelf

Four new Jewish books are tour guides to old ones

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 5, 2017July 11, 2017

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