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Summer Internships at the National Yiddish Book Center

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Received this info via e-mail:

INTERNSHIPS: June 14-July 24, 2009
at the National Yiddish Book Center
Amherst, MA
Live and learn Yiddish for six weeks in the lively Five College area:

Intensive beginning and intermediate Yiddish-language classes.
Studies in Yiddish Culture and Eastern European History.
Hands-on professional experience with the Book Center’s staff.
Research opportunities.
Field trips, workshops, performances, and more.

Full-time undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Each student receives free tuition and credit for two undergraduate courses. Application Deadline: February 2, 2009

For more information and application guidelines go to http://www.yiddishsummer.org/

More from Moment Magazine: Upcoming Events

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In addition to its excellent content, the latest issue of Moment magazine announces two particularly interesting (and free) events.

First, on December 9, Moment will celebrate the most recent winners of the Moment-Karma Short Fiction Contest. Geraldine Brooks, who judged this year’s contest, will also participate. This event will take place in New York City; for more information, click here. (By the way, the deadline for the next competition is coming up on December 1. For details, click here.)

And on Monday, December 22, Moment and the Foundation for Jewish Culture will present this year’s Emerging Writer Awards “to showcase talented writers who have published at least one book, but have not yet received widespread recognition.” This year’s winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction is Anya Ulinich for Petropolis; the Handelsman Prize for Non-fiction is Harry Bernstein for The Invisible Wall. The awards presentation and reception will take place in Washington, DC. Click here for details.

Mining Moment Magazine

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The November-December issue Moment magazine (“The Book Issue”) arrived last week, and it contains some terrific content. Here’s a quick guide to some highlights:

1) A profile of comedian Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz)

2) Reading recommendations (classic and contemporary Jewish books) from nine Nobel laureates. Plus: more suggestions from rabbis.

3) The top three stories submitted to the most recent Moment-Karma Short Fiction Award competition.

4) A poem by Myra Sklarew

5) And an online bonus: a book club guide to Philip Roth’s Goodbye Columbus and Other Stories.

From My Bookshelf: What Happened to Anna K.? by Irina Reyn

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Last week I finished reading What Happened to Anna K.?, the first novel by Irina Reyn, who immigrated to the United States as a child and whose book adds to the growing collection of excellent fiction being penned by Jewish transplants from Russia to the United States. It’s a retelling of Anna Karenina, through a distinctly Russian-Jewish immigrant lens. Highly recommended!

Late last month, Sandee Brawarsky introduced Reyn and her book, as well as another Russian-born fictionist, Sania Krasikov, whose story collection is titled One More Year. Both Reyn and Krasikov are among the “Five Under 35” whom the National Book Foundation will honor this year “as someone whose work is particularly promising and exciting and is among the best of a new generation of writers.”

Tenth Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers’ Conference

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This message arrived in my e-mailbox this morning.

Some of you may be interested in the Tenth Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers’ Conference on November 23 at the 92nd Street Y in New York. We invite everyone to attend and ask that you pass on this announcement to others you think might be interested.

Thanks.

Anna Olswanger, Conference Coordinator

Tenth Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers’ Conference
Sunday, November 23, 2008, 9 AM to 5 PM
92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
$95 before November 1, $110 after November 1
Fee includes kosher breakfast and lunch

The 92nd Street Y Buttenwieser Library and the Jewish Book Council are cosponsoring the Tenth Annual Jewish Children’s Book Writers’Conference at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on Sunday, November 23, 2008, from 9:00 am to 5:00 p.m.

Featured speakers are associate agent Michelle Andelman of Andrea Brown Literary Agency, publisher David E. Behrman of Behrman House, executive editor Michelle Frey of Alfred A. Knopf and Crown Books for Young Readers, editor Larry Rosler of Boyds Mills Press, director Joni Sussman of Kar-Ben Publishing, and illustrator’s agent Melissa Turk of Melissa Turk & The Artist Network.

Award-winning author Johanna Hurwitz will give opening remarks, and the day will include sessions on publishing and writing in Israel, the Sydney Taylor Book Award and Manuscript Competitions, and individual consultations with editors and agents from past conferences.

The registration form is available for download at www.92y.org/content/pdf/jewishchildrensbookwriters.pdf. Call 212-415 5544 or e-mail library@92Y.org for additional information or to request the form by mail. The final registration deadline is November 17.

If you write or illustrate children’s books for the Jewish market, this conference is for you!