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Jewish literature

No Place to Lay One’s Head Awarded 2019 JQ-Wingate Literary Prize

Stephanie Smee Feb 25, 2019 0

Françoise Frenkel, a woman of Polish Jewish origin, and an unabashed Francophile, gamely opened her French language bookstore in Berlin in 1921 after completing her studies at the…
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“The Marriage Plot” by Naomi Seidman

Richa Dwor May 29, 2017 0

A full third of the Jewish Chronicle’s obituary of Jetti Wohllerner, who died in 1891 at the age of 78, describes her first marriage match. She had been betrothed at 14 to a boy of…
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Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2017 Short List

Daniel Martini Jan 11, 2017 0

The 2017 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize has generated a short-list of five powerful books which the judges believe all bring a fresh perspective to the ‘dominant, pressing issues…
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