February 12, 2008
Variety reported yesterday that Columbia Pictures acquired the screen rights to Michael Chabon‘s “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.” And, perhaps more exciting from a consumer’s point of view, the novel will be transferred to the big screen by the team of … Continue reading
February 12, 2008
Polish prosecutors announced Tuesday that they will not seek charges against author and historian Jan T. Gross, according to Reuters. Here's more from the story: “The prosecutor's office decided there was nothing illegal (in the book),” said Boguslawa Marcinkowska, a … Continue reading
February 12, 2008
The Jewish Book Council just announced the winner of the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Lucette Lagnado won the award for her 2007 memoir, “The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to … Continue reading
February 10, 2008
Ilan Stavans, the author of “On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language” and the editor of “The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature” and “The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories,” spoke with the New York Times last week. Here's what … Continue reading
February 8, 2008
With erev Shabbos coming upon us (I was a poet and I didn't even know it!), I thought we'd inject a little levity around here. Here's what the Beatles might have sounded like in Israel if they were allowed to … Continue reading
February 7, 2008
Abraham Brumberg, a writer who specialized in Eastern European subjects, especially the treatment of Jews in the former Soviet bloc, died January 26 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 81. The New York Times ran an obituary … Continue reading
February 7, 2008
If you're still wondering why book reviews matter, there's an excellent piece written by Joan Acocella in the Feb. 4 issue of The New Yorker. The piece itself does not say anything specifically about book reviews or literary criticism. It's … Continue reading
February 6, 2008
Since I’m plugging stuff today, I figure I may as well plug my own stuff for once. I started this blog back in May and I’m happy to report that turned my first profit last month. I didn’t make a … Continue reading
February 6, 2008
Just wanted to give a quick shout-out to my friends over at Jewlicious.com who are organizing the Jewlicious Festival 4.0. Yesterday, Rabbi Jonah posted an item about four “hot” Jewish writers who will be attending the festival in L.A. from … Continue reading
February 5, 2008
Baruch Spinoza, pictured right, believed in the oneness of everything. (‘God or nature’ he called it.) But, as Allan Nadler recounts in this Forward review of David Ives’s play, “New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch Spinoza,” no singular version of … Continue reading
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My name is Steven H. Pollak and I have written for the Baltimore Jewish Times, the Atlanta Jewish Times, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and American Jewish Life magazine.
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