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Blood, Sweat and Tears of N.Y. Birth

Howard Kaplan November 6, 2003

\”City of Dreams: A Novel of Nieuw Amsterstam and Early Manhattan,\” by Beverly Swerling. (Scribner paperback, $15.)

John Irving, whose novels have the rare distinction of being widely praised, read and filmed, has said that he always follows havoc with healing. Spanning the destruction-filled years of 1661 to 1798, Beverly Swerling\’s sprawling and successful novel about the origins of Manhattan purposely offers her readers no such solace.

Q & A With Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz

Gaby Wenig November 6, 2003

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has written more than 60 books on Jewish spirituality, but he is most famous for his translation and commentary of the Babylonian Talmud, which made the complicated text accessible to millions of otherwise ignorant Jews.

Recently, Steinsaltz turned his attention to the classic work of Chabad Chasidism — \”The Tanya,\” first published in 1797 by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad. In \”Opening the Tanya: Discovering the Moral and Mystical Teachings of a Classic Work of Kabbalah\” (Wiley, 2003) Steinsaltz translates and comments on the text and explicates the Tanya\’s philosophical and spiritual messages.

Book Month Sparks Literary Landslide

Rachel Brand November 6, 2003

Last year, when Leonard Lawrence learned that the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles (JCCGLA) had to cancel its annual book fair as a result of restructuring within the organization, he vowed to not let it happen again.

\”We saw it as a challenge that Mount Sinai could rise up to,\” said Lawrence, general manager of Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries.

This year, Lawrence\’s call to duty has placed the book festival back on the map with a bit of a twist. Unlike the traditional book fairs of previous years, this year\’s book festival, co-sponsored by Mount Sinai and JCCGLA, will cater to children.

Golfing Gran Takes Down Yiddishe Bubbe

Beverly Gray October 2, 2003

Book publishers know that the marketplace is full of Jewish customers with a high level of secular education, a reasonable degree of Jewish awareness and strong aesthetic sensibilities. And now they\’re having children.

Shoah’s Belorussian Cowboys

Michal Lemberger October 2, 2003

America\’s sense of self-definition has been on display more blatantly than ever, it seems. Led by our administration, we have embraced the \”cowboy\” ethic: seemingly down-home while at the same time unilaterally aggressive.

A Child’s Murder, a Mother’s Strength

Wendy Mogel September 18, 2003

\”The Blessing of a Broken Heart\” gives the struggle a precious face and, at the same time, illustrates the power of Jewish faith, ritual and community to heal.

New Writers Lack Roth Shock Value

Donna Rifkind September 18, 2003

It\’s official. American Jews are now the People of the Book Festival.

Nowadays, literature in general — and Jewish literature in particular — have become much more public entertainments.

Life After ‘Sex’

Amy Klein September 11, 2003

\”I would prefer to marry someone who\’s Jewish,\” Cindy Chupack said, because most Jews have a \”built-in sense of humor, just because we\’ve had to develop one; it\’s one of our survival instincts or something.\” She finds humor really sexy, and likes Jewish family values, \”but we haven\’t cornered the market on that,\” she said.

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