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Benjamin Balint at the NYT:

(JTA) - Music critic Jeremy Eichlers study of how classical composers made music after the Holocaust was named the book of the year by the Jewish

(JTA) — Music critic Jeremy Eichler’s study of how classical composers made music after the Holocaust was named the book of the year by the Jewish Book Council, which will

James McBride also won two National Jewish Book Awards for fiction for his novel “The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store,” a sprawling whodunit centering on a small Pennsylvania town.

(JTA) - When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel "Kantika" - inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family - I asked her how

The flawed and the complex; the historic and the particular. These are the qualities that I look for in a good book. Below are some of the Jewish books I read and enjoyed in 2023.

(JTA) — When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family — I asked her how she managed

Schulz might have offered the world more literature, but he was shot dead, aged 50, by a Nazi in 1942 while walking back home in German-occupied Poland.

From the blog of Sheldon Kirshner at The Times of Israel

Benjamin Balint returns with another book presenting the conflicting claims and arguments of another case of Israel attempting to safeguard the cultural treasures of Holocaust victims.