My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew by Abigail Pogrebin New Year young shtetl dwellers in late

young shtetl dwellers in late nineteenth-century Russia who fall under the spell of a traveling acting company

Bilbo will outwit trolls

Chava Rosenfarb revisits her themes of the shtetl and pre-Holocaust Poland

Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel captures through the phrase “never better

Naar recovers the diverse experiences of a lost religious

My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew by Abigail Pogrebin New Year young shtetl dwellers in lateListen to our podcast with author Abigail Pogrebin here: The much dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, A Portrait of Jewish Americans, revealed that most U. S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culturenot in religion. Abigail Pogrebin wondered if perhaps thats because we havent all looked at religion closely enough. Although she grew up following some holiday rituals, Pogrebin realized how little she knew about their