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Netanyahu Sets Meeting With Peres To Request Extension in Forming Government

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:05:00 EST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Shimon Peres to request an extension in forming a government.

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Ben Schrank and Joshua Furst Debate Judaism and Art

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EST

Two authors walk into a bar … and debate Judaism, Brooklyn, and their own paranoia. For Ben Schrank and Joshua Furst, there’s no better time and place to chat.

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What Has He Done To Deserve This?

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EST

In his dark, literate and startlingly compassionate memoir, James Lasdun explores being harassed by a former student whose writing he championed.

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‘Yip’ Harburg’s All-American Lyrics Came With a Heaping Helping of Yiddishkeit

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:00:00 EST

Jewish lyricist E. Y. Harburg created both the tragic ‘Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?’ and the idealistic ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’

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Uncertain Future for Jews in French Provinces

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:00:00 EST

French Jewry will always have Paris. But they face an uncertain future in provincial cities that have made crucial contributions to history.

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Left's Love-Hate Relationship With Zionism

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 05:00:00 EST

First, the left fought against Zionism, then backed it. Robert Wistrich explains the complex relationship in comprehensive detail.

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Dark Days Are Here Again

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 05:00:00 EST

Far from the invincible heroes of Hollywood or the fixers of popular imagination, noir protagonists are usually pathetic, marginal figures.

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Paul Goodman Speaks for Half a Generation

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:00:00 EST

Paul Goodman’s reissued 1960s classic ‘Growing Up Absurd’ may make you nostalgic for a past you never lived. The author’s uncomplicated idealism is complicated by his attitude to women.

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Michael Chabon's Life Is Reflected in ‘Telegraph Avenue’

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:00:00 EST

Michael Chabon’s home in Berkeley is an oasis amidst the university town clatter and clutter. It reminds the author of his idyllic melting pot hometown in suburban Maryland.

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Mark Helprin's Politics Doesn't Get in Way of Prose

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:00:00 EST

His strident politics notwithstanding, Mark Helprin’s magically descriptive powers have rendered up some of the most genuinely adventurous writing of our time.

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Rachel Tzvia Back’s Verse Confronts Devastating Loss

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

Poet Rachel Tzvia Back palpates the edges and depths of grief and mourning. The text in her latest book of verse, ‘A Messenger Comes,’ is unflinching and raw.

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Michael Feinstein Strikes Up The Bland

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

Michael Feinstein’s ‘The Gershwins and Me,’ is a sustained act of homage to the legendary composers. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make it a great book.

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Jami Attenberg Phones Home

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

Jami Attenberg wanted to investigate why she’s so interested in food (which plays a big role in her novel, ‘The Middlesteins’). So she called her father to find out.

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Némirovsky’s ‘Wine of Solitude’ Confirms Her Place

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

‘The Wine of Solitude’ is the most autobiographical novel from Irene Némirovsky, who died in Auschwitz in 1942. It confirms her place in the pantheon of Jewish writers.

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A.M. Homes' Novel Addresses '70s Childhood

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

A.M. Homes calls her new work a ‘midlife coming-of-age novel,’ which makes ‘May We Be Forgiven’ sound sweet or langorous. In truth, it’s neither.

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Hans Keilson’s First Novel Depicts Life Before Nazis

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

Unlike Hans Keilson’s bestsellers, ‘Life Goes On’ is not grounded in the crises and moral dilemmas posed by the Nazis’ reign. It takes on the period of economic decline that preceded it.

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Don’t Know Much About Semitism

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

Susan Isaacs came from an assimilated family that had a Christmas tree. The author explains how coming to faith late in life informs her approach to Jewish fiction.

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Teenage Hero Is a Distinctly West Coast Jew

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

Has any Jewish teenager in recent American literature felt as much antipathy toward attending Hebrew school as Sanskrit Aaron Zuckerman?

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Holocaust Memoir Fraud Inspires Novel

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

After a Holocaust memoir was revealed as a fraud, Benjamin Stein wove a fictional tale of a literary hoax that takes on the sentimental link between Jewish identity and the shoah.

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Confronting Father’s Mountain of Exaggerations

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:00:00 EST

Decades after mountaineer Maurice Herzog chronicled his Alpine exploits, he was accused of embellishing the truth. Now, his daughter has written a novel based on her family history.

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