Posts Tagged ‘ novels ’

Breaking and Entering

February 7, 2013
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The year is 1994 and psychologist Richard Shapiro has accidentally burned down a California state forest. Weeks earlier, his young patient had committed suicide, and the blazing forest hastens Richard’s slide toward mental breakdown. He and his wife Louise, an exasperated school guidance counselor, decide to start their and their…

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Up the Down Staircase

October 25, 2012
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In 1923, a 12-year-old Russian girl named Belle Kaufman immigrated with her parents to America and, not…

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The Jewish Mail Order Bride

August 2, 2012
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These days, mail-order brides mostly reside in your spam folder, but in the 1800s, it…

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Treasure Hunt in Prague

July 26, 2012
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In the late 1500s, Prague was a cultural…

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Chaim Potok and the Rebbe Walk into a Bar.

July 12, 2012
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A farbrengen is a Hasidic spiritual gathering–it can be just a handful…

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

June 28, 2012
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In the new novel Me and Earl and the…

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A Nazi, Assassinated

May 1, 2012
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Is there such thing as being too obsessed…

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A Jewish Homeland in Germany

April 23, 2012
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Lately, it seems like everybody’s a fan of…

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Jewish by Identity Theft

April 18, 2012
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When people talk about mixed marriages, they don’t usually…

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The Other Anne Franks

February 1, 2012
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anne

Shalom Auslander’s new novel Hope: A Tragedy takes a calculated…

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Holocaust Freaks

December 26, 2011
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Young Holocaust survivors are the unexpected subject of the science fiction…

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Jesus and Irving Mandelbaum

December 14, 2011
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Leonard is 15 years old, the child of…

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