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May 16, 2011
A new book by a mother and daughter explores a secret kept hidden during the Holocaust and its effect on survivor’s children. What’s particularly interesting is that this is a dual-memoir: both the mother and the daughter talk about their … Continue reading
July 9, 2008
If Rachel Shukert's new book is as good as her recent Salon.com essay about how the video game “Rock Band” saved her marriage then I think we can expect big things from this first-time author. She's a fun, witty writer … Continue reading
May 30, 2008
As an investigative journalist in New York City, Marie Brenner (pictured right) certainly faced a lot of tough assignments in her career. As a writer at large for Vanity Fair magazine, she penned a 1996 exposé about the tobacco industry … Continue reading
May 28, 2008
Doubleday recently acquired world English rights to Norman Podhoretz’s forthcoming book, “Why Jews Are Liberals.” Podhoretz, the prominent neoconservative thinker who served as editor-in-chief of Commentary magazine from 1960 through 1995 and continues to serve as the magazine’s editor-at-large, has … Continue reading
May 27, 2008
Louis Ferrante made a lot of bad decisions in his life. But he made one very smart choice after being released from prison in December of 2006. A life-long wiseguy who served time for racketeering, armed robbery and credit card … Continue reading
May 12, 2008
I'm having a hard time conceiving of what a 'Yiddish-Irish' brogue would even sound like. But it's apparently something that's been heard in Chippewa Lake, Ohio, of all places. Here's more from an essay written by Sean Martin, associate curator … Continue reading
March 3, 2008
For someone who doesn’t believe in God, Lawrence Bush sure knows a lot about religion. As the son of avowedly secular Jewish socialists, the brother of an Orthodox Christian, the former speechwriter for a prominent Reform rabbi and the editor … Continue reading
February 29, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting that a best-selling Belgian writer has admitted to fabricating her memoir of growing up as a Jewish child and living with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust. Here's more on the … Continue reading
February 14, 2008
Earlier this week, the Jewish Book Council announced the winner of the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Lucette Lagnado, a former editor at the Forward and currently an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, won the prize … Continue reading
January 15, 2008
A single day in a concentration camp would have been enough to fill a novel. So, it was probably wise of Fred Wander to pick just a handful of episodes to write about from his time as an inmate in … 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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