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If you don’t know where to start, here are a few suggestions for books by our journalists and titles that the Forward has featured this past year. There’s something for everyone on your Hannukah shopping list: |
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| Featured in the Forward: 10/7: 100 Human Stories is an account of the 10/7 attacks through the stories of its victims and the communities they called home. |
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| From Benyamin Cohen, the Forward’s news director: The Einstein Effect is a fascinating look into how Einstein’s genius and science continues to show up in so many facets of our everyday lives and his enduring legacy as an unlikely pop culture icon. |
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| Featuring an essay by the Forward’s editor-in-chief, Jodi Rudoren: Jewish Priorities: Sixty-Five Proposals for the Future of Our People is a collection of timely and provocative essays from a wide range of Jewish leading writers, thinkers and activists about what they believe our community needs most at this critical moment. |
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| From Jay Michaelson, Forward contributor: The Secret That Is Not a Secret: Ten Heretical Tales is a provocative collection of interconnected tales, bridging the worlds of mysticism and heresy, faith and desire. |
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| From Emily Tamkin, Forward contributor: Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identity examines the history of Jewish people in America, inviting us to join the conversation about Jewish identity to explore what we find meaningful. |
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| Featured in the Forward: Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life is a provocative look at the explosive growth of Jewish institutions in the 20th century and how younger generations of Jews — the children and grandchildren of those who built the federations, synagogues, JCCs, rabbinical seminaries — are feeling less welcome in those very places. |
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| Featured in the Forward: The Golem of Brooklyn is a ferociously funny story of an art teacher, a bodega clerk and a five-thousand-year-old Yiddish-speaking crisis monster made of clay. The story asks what would happen if the mythic avenger of Jewish lore came to contemporary America.
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| Featured in the Forward: Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships, by NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg, is a memoir of her personal successes, struggles and life affirming relationships, including her friendship of nearly 50 years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
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| Featured in the Forward: Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism presents a progressive, intersectional, historically-based approach to the vital question: What can we do about antisemitism? |
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| Featured in the Forward: Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 is a new history that recovers the voices of those American Jews who raised concerns about the question of Palestinian rights during Israel’s early decades. |
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Buy one for each night of Hanukkah and immerse yourself in a good book (or eight!) this winter. A percentage of all sales through our affiliate link on Bookshop.org will directly support the Forward. |
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