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Into My Garden by David Caplan

Into My Garden by David Caplan

Jewish Poetry Project “These remarkable poems blend spiritual unease with religious confidence, an investigator’s fascinated spirit with a sense that the poet has almost—but not quite—come home. Caplan writes to portray this Orthodox Jewish...

Esther in America by Stuart Halpern

Esther in America by Stuart Halpern

The Book of Esther has inspired and impacted the American project since its very inception. Rabbis and ethicists, abolitionists and artists, preachers and presidents, have understood the text to speak to their moment. It...

The Berlin Shadow by Jonathan Lichtenstein

The Berlin Shadow by Jonathan Lichtenstein

Living with the Ghosts of the Kindertransport In 1939, Jonathan Lichtenstein’s father Hans escaped Nazi-occupied Berlin as a child refugee on the Kindertransport. Almost every member of his family died after Kristallnacht, and, upon...