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Chaim Potok's Asher Lev Still Lives

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 05.07.2013 | New York
Read More: Matisyahu, The Catcher in the Rye, Saul Bellow, The Chosen, Woody Allen, Hasidic Jews, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Cynthia Ozick, Lady GaGa, Henry James, Beatboxing, Philip Roth, Chaim Potok, Bernard Malamud, My Name Is Asher Lev, New York News
Thane Rosenbaum

Did I mention that he is a Hasidic Jew? Asher Lev makes Matisyahu look like beat-boxing was never meant for anything more racy than a bar mitzvah.

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Pioneering Cultural Historian Dies At 104

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 12.25.2012 | Books
Read More: From Dawn to Decadence, Books, Jacques Barzun Dead, Jacques Barzun, Jacques Barzun Obituary, Lionel Trilling, National Humanities Medal, Keith Richards, Authors, Video, Columbia University, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Cynthia Ozick, Dwight Macdonald, Cultural Historian, Ap, Books News

Jacques Barzun, a pioneering cultural historian, reigning public intellectual and longtime Ivy League professor who became a best-selling author in hi...

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Pioneering Cultural Historian Dies At 104

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 12.25.2012 | Books
Read More: From Dawn to Decadence, Books, Jacques Barzun, Jacques Barzun Dead, Obituary, Jacques Barzun Obituary, Lionel Trilling, National Humanities Medal, Keith Richards, Authors, Columbia University, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Cynthia Ozick, Dwight Macdonald, Ap, Cultural Historian, Video, Books News

Jacques Barzun, a pioneering cultural historian, reigning public intellectual and longtime Ivy League professor who became a best-selling author in hi...

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Literature As Legacy: Writing Across The Generational Divide

Laura Paull | Posted 04.25.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: San Francisco Jewish Community Center, Saul Bellow, Philip Levine Poet Laureate, Joyce Carol Oates, American Writers, Vassar College, I.B.SInger, WIlliam Gifford, Philip Levine, Jewish American Writers, Nicole Krauss, Cynthia Ozick, Brett Singer, I.J. SInger, Harold Bloom, Peter Orner, Writing, Bookfest, San Francisco News
Laura Paull

Literature as a creator of dialogues that deepen and explore the dynamic between different generations is a theme of a multi-day event at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center his weekend, through Tuesday, Feb. 28.

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Book Reviews: Critics vs. Amazon Reviewers

The Daily Beast | Posted 07.13.2011 | Books
Read More: Reviews, Future of Books, Book Reviewers, Book Critics, Book Reviews, Amazon, New York Times Book Review, Cynthia Ozick, Books News

In the age of rapid digital revolution in publishing, when readers have book review options ranging from decades-old publications like The New Yorker,...

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The Most Famous Retold Stories In Literature

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.26.2011 | Books
Read More: Foreign Bodies, Ali Smith, Michael Cunningham, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, John Gardner, The Robber's Bride, David Wroblewski, Margaret Atwood, The Great Night, Victoria Patterson, Grendel, The Hours, Girl Meets Boy, Chris Adrian, c.s. Lewis, Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Books News

Besides being an accomplished pediatrician, Chris Adrian was named one of the New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40″ fiction writers last summer, and is als...

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2010 National Jewish Book Awards Announced

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Book Prize, Jewish Writers, Jewish Awards, Literary Award, Literary Prize, National Jewish Book Awards, Gal Beckerman, David Grossman, Martin Fletcher, Book Award, Cynthia Ozick, 2010 National Jewish Book Awards, Jewish Book Awards, Harold Grinspoon, Jewish Authors, Books News

The Jewish Book Council crowned Gal Beckerman's "When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry" the Jewish Book of the ...

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