The best Jewish books of 2023
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Culture How a master of understatement conjured up the horrors of the Shoah
Aharon Appelfeld's 'Poland, A Green Land' is a sort of fable set a generation after the fall of the Third Reich
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Culture Martin Buber’s ‘I and Thou’ inspired Martin Luther King and Allen Ginsberg — can it still speak to us today?
The 100-page book was more than a bestseller; it became a manifesto for existence
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Fast Forward ‘Plunder,’ Menachem Kaiser’s memoir about reclaiming his family’s Polish home, wins Sami Rohr prize
The annual award is given to a distinguished work of Jewish literature
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Forverts in English Feeling at home in my Yiddish-speaking bubble
The ten students in my Yiddish class are of differing political persuasions but we're united in our love of the language.
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Life 8 Modern Literary Texts To Read At Your Passover Seder
Every Passover, I find that my contributions to the Seder are somewhat limited. My niece and nephew have now been charged with the task of asking the four questions and my mother’s food preparations are almost sacred unto themselves. This year, though, I’ve been tasked with the delightful job of considering literary readings that are…
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Forverts in English A Fable About a Modern King David
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The American writer Joshua Cohen’s last two books, Book of Numbers and Witz, were considerable epic novels that dealt with philosophical issues through a mix of satirical realism and grotesque fantasy. But his new book, “Moving Kings” (both a name of a company and an allegorical key),…
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Opinion The Passing of Sami Rohr
I just learned of the death yesterday of Sami Rohr, the businessman and philanthropist powerhouse behind the growth of Chabad around the world. He was also the namesake of an incredible literary prize that his children endowed in his name on his 80th birthday and that I was so grateful to receive this past year….
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