The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan
Abraham Cahan (1860-1951), the son of a rabbi, was born and raised in Vlinius, where he trained as a teacher in the Jewish Folk Schools.
Susan Kittner Huntting
Everything Is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Prior to its publication in Spring 2002, an excerpt of Everything Is Illuminated appeared in the New Yorker'sdebut-fiction issue.
B'midbar or Numbers?
Writing about the Book of Numbers, Arnie Eisen hears the text proclaim, "Welcome to the real world…. It is not a sanctuary." He contrasts the orderly world of Leviticus with the chaos of B'midbar, a place without landmarks, whose story is recounted in a book that also seems to lack