Stuart Schoffman

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Shai Secunda |Akiva Schick |Abraham Socher |Stuart Schoffman

Scala Arts Publishers 340 pp., $60 William Davidson Permanent Exhibition Gallery The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem On October 18, 1899, on the front page of the Warsaw Hebrew daily, Hatzfirah, a physician and book collector named Joseph Chasanowich published a lengthy call to erect a library in Jerusalem:I say that in Jerusalem there will be built a grand house . . .

Apr 26, 2024 | jewishreviewofbooks.com | Thaïs Miller |Akiva Schick |Stuart Schoffman |Abraham Sutzkever

The Yiddish instructor brought out a box of cutout paper letters and asked his teaching assistant to arrange them in alphabetical order inside a plastic box. The assistant struggled a bit. The instructor, whom I will call Mikołaj, turned to me and said, “You know the alphabet. Can you help us?” We were speaking to each other mostly in Yiddish with a little English when we hit a roadblock in our understanding. “Sure,” I said, wondering how he was going to use them.

Nov 17, 2023 | jewishbookcouncil.org | A.B. Yehoshua |Stuart Schoffman |Elizabeth Mandel |Emmanuelle Sippy

Skip to main content Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, found­ed in 1943, is the longest-run­n­ing orga­ni­za­tion devot­ed exclu­sive­ly to the sup­port and cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox.

Jun 20, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Stuart Schoffman |James McBride

Intelligent and thoughtful but not quite at this groundbreaking writer’s usual level of excellence. An obscure English novelist and a missing-heir trial are the real historical springboards for Smith’s latest fiction. Eliza Touchet is cousin and housekeeper to William Ainsworth, whose novel Jack Sheppard once outsold Oliver Twist but who, by 1868, has been far eclipsed by his erstwhile friend Dickens. Widower William is about to marry his maid Sarah Wells, who has borne him a child.

Jun 16, 2023 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Aharon Appelfeld |Vali Mintzi |Jeffrey Green |Stuart Schoffman

Skip to main content Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, found­ed in 1943, is the longest-run­n­ing orga­ni­za­tion devot­ed exclu­sive­ly to the sup­port and cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish literature. Get the latest reviews, news, and more in your inbox. Review By – June 19, 2023 Yaakov Fein grows up in the bustling metrop­o­lis of Tel Aviv, a world away from Szy­dow­ce, his family’s ances­tral vil­lage in the Pol­ish coun­try­side.