Books, Poetry & Short Stories – Page 135

‘Lions mate with lions’ examines life of Francoise Gilot

May 10, 2016

When I met Françoise Gilot in London in 1968, she seemed impressively confident and highly articulate. Two things she said stick in my memory. One of her regular chores while living with Picasso, she recalled, was to get him out of bed every day around noon. Each time he was reluctant to begin a new […]

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Where Anne Frank’s ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ Will Go

May 9, 2016

A copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales once owned by Anne and Margot Frank, their names inscribed atop the title page, sold at auction Thursday for $62,500 (including the buyer’s premium). The New York City–based Swann Auction Galleries said that “the sale represents the first major offering of Anne Frank material at auction in over two

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History

Novelist Chabon leads writers on West Bank tour

May 8, 2016

By William Booth May 7 at 12:37 PM Follow @boothwilliam HEBRON, West Bank — Arriving aboard a tour bus, accompanied by a former Israeli machine-gunner turned human rights activist, an international delegation of pretty famous…

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East

‘Bridge Ladies’ spans mothers, daughters, cards

May 8, 2016

They say you can’t go home again, but that’s exactly what Betsy Lerner did… albeit reluctantly. Decades after leaving Connecticut for college, the literary agent and author found herself back in her native New Haven, living near her mother — something she swore would never happen again. Being in such close proximity to her widowed

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories

Pogrebin tells of her Jewish life, beliefs

April 27, 2016

Questions for Letty Cottin Pogrebin Letty Cottin Pogrebin says she is interested in “probing the many ways there are to be Jewish in America.” Photo by Mike Lovett Writer Letty Cottin Pogrebin said she grew up in a “very left-wing family” in Jamaica, Queens, and “it was not blacks that bothered anybody; it was non-Jews.”

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USA

Khamenei lauds ‘Merchant of Venice’

April 26, 2016

As the world marks the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Monday tweeted that he too, is a fan of The Bard, and highlighted “The Merchant of Venice” — famous for its derogatory depiction of Jewish moneylender Shylock — as being in “accordance with Western values.” “I have read

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Ancient Jewish wisdom and modern science

April 24, 2016

By Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO –Passover in the 21st Century presents Jewish people with new dilemmas unimagined in previous eras: Should I have regular white flour matzah, whole wheat matzah, egg matzah, any of the flavored matzahs, and more recently “gluten free matzah.” We also have the choice of salted or unsalted matzah, domestic or

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Yeshiva University essays prayers of Shabbat

April 24, 2016

From Within the Tents: The Sabbath Prayers, Essays by the Rabbis and Professors of Yeshiva University edited by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman and Dr. Stuart W. Halpern; Maggid Books, New Milford, CT; ISBN 978-1-59264-446-9 ©2014, $29.95, p. 295 plus Appendix By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –Hermann Cohen, arguably the greatest German-Jewish philosopher of the nineteenth

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History

A fictional variant on the life of Frye

April 24, 2016

The House of Dreams by Kate Lord Brown, © 2016 St. Martin’s Press; ISBN 978-1-250-08453-8; 304 pages plus author’s note and acknowledgments; $25.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This historical novel paints a picture of international rescue worker Varian Frye as he smuggles artists and poets out of France in 1940 and 1941

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

From the Jewish library: ‘Slave, My True Story’

April 24, 2016

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — One of the most dramatic stories of the Hebrew Bible is told in the Book of Exodus; the story of the enslavement of a people and their flight to freedom. Though this epic event is recounted every year during the Passover Seder, the possibility of such an enslavement still

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories

A shaggy dog story for Israel Independence Day

April 23, 2016

Shmulik Paints the Town by Lisa Rose (illustrated by Catalina Echeverri); Kar-Ben Publishing; ISBN 978-1-4677-5239-8; 32 pages; $17.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Have you ever told your child a shaggy dog story? Like the one about the man who convinces the manager of the movie theater to let him and his dog

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

From the Jewish Library: U.S. Grant and the Jews

April 17, 2016

When General Grant Expelled the Jews by Jonathan D. Sarna, Publisher: Schocken, 2012 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — The American Civil War tested the character, fortitude as well as the civic structure of the United States such as in suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus. The outcome of the war would determine if

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‘Fairy Tales’ tells of family’s Anschluss ordeal, recovery

April 16, 2016

Fairy Tales (nonfiction) by James Josef Allina; PublishAmerica (c) 2013; ISBN 9781462659692; 182 pages, $13. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —Fairy Tales is a two-part memoir. The first part, in the voice of the author’s uncle, Josef Benesch, focuses on living conditions for Jews in Vienna after the Anschluss with Nazi Germany The second

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Go beyond brisket with Passover recipes that celebrate the diversity of the Jewish table

April 15, 2016

Long before shakshuka, the saucy egg dish so popular in Israel, hit tables in Canada, and pomegranate molasses and za’atar became pantry staples for many, Evelyn Rose and Joyce Goldstein were transforming the world of Jewish cuisine. One of Evelyn’s guiding principles was that food should have ta’am – a quality that makes it taste

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Travel and Food

‘Lions mate with lions’ examines life of Francoise Gilot

Where Anne Frank’s ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ Will Go

Novelist Chabon leads writers on West Bank tour

‘Bridge Ladies’ spans mothers, daughters, cards

Pogrebin tells of her Jewish life, beliefs

Khamenei lauds ‘Merchant of Venice’

Ancient Jewish wisdom and modern science

Yeshiva University essays prayers of Shabbat

A fictional variant on the life of Frye

From the Jewish library: ‘Slave, My True Story’

A shaggy dog story for Israel Independence Day

From the Jewish Library: U.S. Grant and the Jews

‘Fairy Tales’ tells of family’s Anschluss ordeal, recovery

Go beyond brisket with Passover recipes that celebrate the diversity of the Jewish table

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