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Stuart Nadler's Story of Interracial Love Explores Tensions in Jewish Families

By Shoshana Olidort

Stuart Nadler's Story of Interracial Love Explores Tensions in Jewish Families
Stuart Nadler tells a story about a love story between a Jewish boy and a black girl in 1950s suburbia. The debut novel also explores a fraught father-son relationship.Read More


A.B. Yehoshua Looks Back at His Country and Art

By Shoshana Olidort

A.B. Yehoshua Looks Back at His Country and Art
In A.B. Yehoshua’s latest novel, an aging Israeli film director is invited for a retrospective of his life’s work. The trip spurs a journey back in time.Read More


Wrestling With Faith in the Land of Oz

By Shoshana Olidort

Wrestling With Faith in the Land of Oz
Amos Oz and his daughter Fania Oz-Salzberger are avowed secularists. But in their new book, they wrestle with the age-old question: ‘Who is a Jew?’Read More


Caught Between Two Worlds

By Shoshana Olidort

Caught Between Two Worlds
The allure of the forbidden is ever-present in Anouk Markovits’s English-language debut, ‘I Am Forbidden.’ The story is a deeply felt account of people caught between worlds.Read More


Tracing an Adoptee's Novel Past

By Shoshana Olidort

Tracing an Adoptee's Novel Past
Ellen Ullman’s ‘By Blood’ traces the mysterious origins an adoptee. What she uncovers is the stuff of thrillers: Nazis, the Holocaust, and displaced persons camps.Read More







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