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As an academically trained historian of modern France, I subscribe to an active listserv on French history. This week, the listserv presented a review of The Hidden Children of France, 1940-45: Stories of Survival, edited by Danielle Bailly and translated by Betty Becker-Theye.
Barbara Krasner (The Whole Megillah) recently returned from Prague, where she visited the graves of Franz Kafka and Arnost Lustig.
I neglected to create a dedicated post on the 15th to announce the latest monthly Jewish Book Carnival. But it’s a good one, so please go over to the August host, the HUC-JIR librarians’ blog, and take a look.
Tablet profiles the impressive founder of Yaldah magazine.
Commentary magazine has launched a literary blog: Literary Commentary. According to the magazine’s editor, John Podhoretz, the blog “will be a place to discuss matters fictional, science-fictional, Jewish-fictional, and all other manner of story, and it will be the charge of D.G. Myers, long a professor of English literature at Texas A&M and now a member of the faculty of the Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State University.”
The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow, is Chicago’s latest “One Book, One Chicago” pick.
I purchased two novels for my Kindle this week: The Submission, by Amy Waldman (whom Eric Herschthal has just profiled for The Jewish Week), and, at long last, Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana de Rosnay, which I hope to read before going to see the movie (my parents saw it last week, and they are still talking about it).
Shabbat shalom!
I love this piece by Erica Lyons. May it be a call to action for programs and those who run them–including programs for Jewish journalism–to recognize the potential contributions of those of us Jews who–horrors!–have passed our fortieth birthdays.
How did one collection of Jewish-focused fiction get its title? Read all about it.
What I’m reading right now: an advance copy of The Little Bride, by Anna Solomon.
Ken Schoen, proprietor of Schoen Books, chronicles a return to his family’s homeland.
Thirty-five years after Entebbe, Yonatan Netanyahu is remembered as a Harvard student. Which makes this Harvard alum especially moved, proud, and astonished that she wasn’t aware of this particular history.
Shabbat shalom!
Through November 30: “The Jewish Writer: Portraits by Jill Krementz.” Exhibition at the Center for Jewish History in NYC.
Next week (also in NYC): The Greatest Yiddish Literature Party Ever.
Professor Gil Troy, on the new genre of “Zionist captivity narratives.” (via JTA)
Mazel tov to the newest winners of the Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism.
I dare you to watch this prize-winning, (very) short film without being moved.
Shabbat shalom!
I always enjoy Josh Lambert’s New Books column for Tablet, but I found this week’s edition, in which Josh introduces various texts that deal with “Jewish life–and Jewish ghosts–in China, Europe, and Latin America,” particularly intriguing.
New blog alert: On kabbalahworlds, writer Kitty Hoffman is “on the trail of Isaac the Blind, SagiNaHar, father of kabbalah, possible ancestor. Tracking his teachings through Occitania, Catalonia, Castile, Andalucia; finding traces of long-gone Jewish civilisations. What remains?”
From The Forward’s Sisterhood blog: “Bridges, A Jewish Feminist Journal, Says Goodbye.”
Last week, Haaretz published another Writers Edition. Among the participants: Leon Wieseltier, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ron Leshem, Eshkol Nevo. and Nathan Englander.
The latest issue of JewishFiction.net has gone live, and it features some amazing authors.
Shabbat shalom!
Thanks for the Center for Jewish History for posting a video of its May 18 “Evening with Philip Roth.”
On Wednesday, the Jewish Book Council’s Twitter Book Club convened to discuss David Bezmozgis’s novel, The Free World. Here’s the transcript.
Meantime, the JBC has announced the title for its next Twitter Book Club: Deborah Lipstadt’s The Eichmann Trial.
I was deeply saddened to read of the death of Zev Birger, a man described by The New York Times as “an official in the young state of Israel who later revived and then led the Jerusalem International Book Fair, turning it into a major event on the literary calendar,” from injuries he sustained when struck by a motorcycle. Mr. Birger, 85, was a Holocaust survivor.
David Kaufmann introduces us to Robert Pinsky’s Selected Poems.
The Forward presents its new website.
Hoping to spend some quality time this weekend with all of the wonderful links in this month’s Jewish Book Carnival.
Shabbat shalom!