2011 Jewish fiction and poetry books (a list of Jewish fiction and poetry books I reviewed in the past year).
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Recent examiner.com articles- 2 book reviews: traumatized midwesterners & Satan in Sweden February 7, 2012One of the reasons we read fiction is to experience foreign places and lives different from our own which certainly describes two new books published today.In my New York Journal of Books review of Stay Awake, Dan Chaon'...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- NY Jewish books: The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus January 17, 2012A language epidemic erupts among Jewish families; children's speech makes their parents deathly ill. Soon it spreads to the rest of the population. This dark fantasy is the premise of Jewish New Yorker Ben Marcus's new...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- 2011 Jewish fiction and poetry books January 1, 2012In my other gig I write book reviews for New York Journal of Books; here is a list of Jewish fiction and poetry books I reviewed in the past year in reverse chronological order:Adult Fiction:Scenes from Village...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- In "Scenes from Village Life" Amos Oz returns to short form fiction October 28, 2011In an interview on last night's Charlie Rose show Israeli writer Amos Oz discussed his latest book, Scenes from Village Life. In my New York Journal of Books review of the book I write: "Loneliness, lethargy, depression...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Susan Daitch's novel Paper Conspiracies revisits Dreyfus Affair October 5, 2011New York Jewish fiction writer Susan Daitch's third novel Paper Conspiracies, which was published last week by City Lights Books, takes an indirect approach to late Nineteenth Century France's Dreyfus Affair by way of peripheral minor...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Anna Solomon's debut novel "The Little Bride" published today September 6, 2011Former NPR correspondant Anna Solomon's debut novel, The Little Bride, is published today by Riverhead Books, a division of New York publisher Penguin USA. In my New York Journal of Books review I describe the book as  ...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- "What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past" published today September 1, 2011What happens when a New York Jewish pack-rat daughter inherits her New York Jewish pack-rat father's belongings? She embarks on a Jewish genealogical search for her and her dad's long lost relatives. Nancy K...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Davar Torah Shabbat Ra'eh August 27, 2011This morning I delivered a a brief talk, a Davar Torah, on Parashat Ra'eh, the weekly Torah portion, at Park Slope Jewish Center in Brooklyn. My talk's sources include Deuteronomy 11:26 -12:28, ...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Israeli poet Dahlia Ravikovitch's complete poetry now in paperback July 5, 2011At the time of her death in 2005, Dahlia Ravikovitch was Israel's second best loved poet after Yehuda Amichai. She was also a committed peace activist, yet her readers included Israelis from all points on the political spectrum...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Vaclav and Lena, a novel about Russian-Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn May 17, 2011Today New York publisher The Dial Press, a division of Random House, releases Haley Tanner's debut novel Vaclav and Lena, a coming of age tale about Russian-Jewish immigrant children in Brooklyn. In my New York Journal of...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Mel and Miriam Alexenberg: An oral history of a Jewish-American-Israeli marriage May 10, 2011Today is Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independence Day, and I'd like to mark the day by sharing an oral-history from The Jewish-American Marriage Oral History Project of a couple of Jewish New Yorkers...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- David Albahari's novel "Leeches" explores antisemitism, mathematics, & Kabbalah April 28, 2011Today Boston and New York publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt releases Serbian-Canadian writer David Albahari's novel Leeches. Albahari is the author of 11 novels and 9 collections of short stories. His previous novel Götz and...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Leonard Cohen is now an Everyman's Library Pocket Poet April 5, 2011When Canadian poet and novelist Leonard Cohen decided to become a singer/songwriter four and a half decades ago he moved to New York City to launch his new career. New York is mentioned in his songs "Chelsea Hotel...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- NY Times film critic A.O. Scott to teach Holocaust in film class March 16, 2011NY Times film critic A.O. Scott will give four lectures with illustrative film clips on The Holocaust in Film on consecutive Sunday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 PM starting this Sunday March 20, 2010 at Park Slope...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Marge Piercy's "The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010" arrives today March 8, 2011It is a fortunate coincidence that today is both International Women's Day and the release date of Marge Piercy's The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems 1980-2010 by New York publisher Alfred Knopf. In...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire centennial anniversary March 2, 2011Today was the one hundredth yartzheit, the one hundredth anniversary on the Jewish calendar, of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire that claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, mostly Jewish and Italian immigrant women, in lower Manhattan. &...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- NYC 911 unresponsive? Call Hatzalah, the volunteer Jewish EMS service January 11, 2011Meteorologists expect the snow storm forecast to begin tomorrow evening and continue Wednesday morning to produce about half as much snow as the blizzard that struck New York two weeks ago. Should you or your loved ones find yourselves in...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Jewish Literature 101: Recommended Jewish fiction and poetry books of 2010 December 31, 2010As people of the book it is a fortunate coincidence that we Jewish New Yorkers not only constitute the nation's largest Jewish community but also inhabit what remains the country's center of book publishing. So now...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Art 101: Tabla Rasa Gallery's backroom art sale December 22, 2010Readers of this column are by now familiar with my coverage of BWAC's Spring, Summer, and Fall group shows and the fine art works by a diverse cohort of Brooklyn artists among whom Jews are somewhat overrepresented that...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
- Tonight 12/21/10: Heeb Storytelling: The Live Comics Edition December 21, 2010If you enjoyed last month's King Con or love graphic fiction head to Joe's Pub this evening where Heeb introduces Heeb Storytelling: The Live Comics EditionA night of irreverent entertainment-graphic...David Cooper, NY Jewish Culture Examiner
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