Don’t Tell Your Brother Meir Shalev Am Oved Publishers, 2022 263 pages Close to one million Israelis live in the United States and Canada. I happen to be one of them. Thus, Don’t Tell Your Brother by veteran and master Israeli author Meir Shalev (born in Nahalal, Israel 1948), whose books have been translated to [...]
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From Belarussian “Balaboosta” to Broadway Madam
December 15, 2022
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Madam—The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age Debby Applegate 553 pp Doubleday, 2021 Frank Sinatra, Walter Winchell, Lucky Luciano, Dorothy Parker, Duke Ellington, Dutch Schultz, Robert Benchley, Desi Arnaz—and likely FDR. This is just a partial list of Jazz Era writers, celebrities, musicians, gangsters, politicians, and other notables who had one thing [...]
Linda Cohen Loigman’s novel tells intergenerational story of matchmaking
November 9, 2022
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March 30, 2023
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