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

by Liz Harris August 13, 2020August 21, 2020
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Former San Franciscan recasts Russian Jewish family stories in ‘Nesting Dolls’

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller July 13, 2020July 21, 2020
Victoria Lee's young adult fiction Feverwake series began with 2019's "The Fever King."
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In Victoria Lee’s prescient YA novels, young people survive pandemic and fascism

Rebecca Landau by Rebecca Landau June 22, 2020July 9, 2021
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Bay Area novelist brings Kindertransports to life

by Ilana DeBare September 4, 2019September 6, 2019
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Award-winning Oakland author dips quill into old Jewish Cairo

by Ilana DeBare June 22, 2018June 28, 2018

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