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Books Prominent Jewish book-ban advocate says Florida’s crackdown on ‘frivolous challenges’ won’t deter him
'To just show up and object to every single book under the sun, that is not an appropriate situation,' Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week about abuses of his signature initiative
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Books An effort to track antisemitism in the literary world launches amid widespread anti-Israel sentiment there
Mayim Bialik, Brett Gelman, Gabrielle Zevin and Sarah Maas are among the Jewish creatives caught up in recent literary Israel controversies
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Books What we keep getting wrong about the Holocaust
In his 'Unfinished History,' Dan Stone argues that it was not an exclusively German project, but a 'continent-wide crime'
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Books The Lublin Yeshiva Library was thought to be destroyed by the Nazis. Then its books started turning up.
A dogged researcher has so far identified 800 surviving books from a library thought burned during the Holocaust
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Books And the winners of the 73rd National Jewish Book Awards are…
Jeremy Eichler’s “Time’s Echo” and James McBride’s “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store” were among the winners of National Jewish Book Awards for 2023
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Culture In a universe of rigid rules and unsanctioned passions, everyone’s a heretic
Jay Michaelson rewrote his debut short story collection — multiple times — before deciding it was ready to enter the world
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Books Auschwitz would seem an unlikely backdrop for a love affair, yet this is a true story
Keren Blankfeld's 'Lovers in Auschwitz' tells of the relationship between David Wisnia and Helen Spitzer
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Books Picture book about family that celebrates Rosh Hashanah and Lunar New Year nabs top Sydney Taylor Jewish children’s book award
A Holocaust novel, a middle-grades story about an Orthodox girl and the publisher of the Sammy Spider series also got awards from the Association of Jewish Libraries
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