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Two images. Left: Photo of a smiling woman with East Asian features in a denim jacket. Right: cover art for her novel, which featues a lavish illustration of a sailing ship on a turbulent sea.
Posted inBooks

Otherness meets expansive imagination in local author’s books for young readers

Rebecca Landau by Rebecca Landau May 20, 2021July 9, 2021
From the cover of "Antiquities" by Cynthia Ozick.
Posted inBooks

Dwell in the past with 2 new books, including Cynthia Ozick’s latest

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman May 12, 2021June 9, 2021
Author Emma Wolf's novel "Heirs of Yesterday" is in print once more with a new edition.
Posted inCulture

Early S.F. author Emma Wolf, ‘mother of American Jewish fiction,’ gets a new reprint 120 years later

by Liz Harris February 28, 2021February 28, 2021
An 1869 portrait of a fairy by Sophie Gengembre Anderson.
Posted inKids & Family

My kids want to know: Are fairies real? Are Jedi? What about bats?

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein January 6, 2021
a green background with small sketches of trees all over -- and in a clearing, the title in yellow type.
Posted inOff the Shelf

‘The Lost Shtetl’ and ‘The Orchard’: 2 new novels of Jewish culture shock

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman November 20, 2020November 23, 2020
Tiburon novelist Leslie K. Barry is the author of "Newark Minutemen."
Posted inBooks

North Bay writer pens tale of Jewish mobsters fighting Nazis… in New Jersey

by Dan Pine October 7, 2020October 14, 2020
From the cover art for "The Tunnel" by A.B. Yehoshua.
Posted inOff the Shelf

New Israeli novels explore the weight of memory

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman September 23, 2020October 14, 2020
From the cover of “D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths,” Nate's new favorite book.
Posted inParenting

I’m baffled by the books my kids love — and thrilled

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein August 14, 2020
the cover of "The Takeaway Men" next to a headshot of Meryl Ain
Posted inBooks

‘The Takeaway Men’: Local rabbi’s mom chooses post-Holocaust theme for first novel

by Liz Harris August 13, 2020August 21, 2020
Cover art for "All My Mother’s Lovers" (an abstract blue floral pattern with white type) and "Florence Adler Swims Forever" (a watercolor of a woman in a red swimsuit and swimming cap on a beach)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Secrets kept, secrets revealed as the main character dies in two debut novels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman July 30, 2020July 31, 2020

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