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November 2, 2007

UJ’s Levy crafts confab to celebrate authors

A new bookshelf, overflowing with volumes, testifies to Gady Levy\’s latest and perhaps most ambitious endeavor: the Celebration of Jewish Books, which begins on Monday and extends through an all-day festival on Sunday. The celebration will offer lectures and signings with 40 authors — including big names, such as Larry King, Michael Chabon, Kirk Douglas and Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) — plus music and dance performances, food and a thousand titles for sale, provided by Borders and the Hebrew-language bookseller Steimatzky.\n

Books: Brits behaving badly

Interview with author Charlotte Mendelson about her novel \”When We Were Bad\”.

Photography: A ‘Vanished’ Berlin through Roman Vishniac’s lens

Shortly after famed photographer Roman Vishniac died in 1990, his daughter Mara checked through his New York apartment. In the bottom drawer of a file cabinet she found a bundle of folders and envelopes labeled \”Berlin.\”Some 40 of the Berlin photos, first curated by Aubrey Pomerance at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, are now on exhibit through Dec. 14 at UCLA Hillel\’s Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts.

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