POETRY MONDAY: JUNE 1, 2020

By Tamar SchwartzJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020 Literature

JIM HABA

Good morning, everyone. A bit cooler today, in our new two-seasons-only weather here in the northeastern U.S. I hope you’re still well.
Full disclosure: Our poet today is one we’ve featured before (back in 2010, actually), and also my co-editor for an anthology just released by IPBooks: What They Bring: The Poetry of Migration and Immigration. But there’s a bigger reason for my re-introducing you to Jim Haba today. When you see the book you’ll note that the striking cover is from a painting by Erica Barton Haba, Jim’s wife and longtime artistic partner, a dear person lost to all of us just a few months ago.

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Shavuot

By Tamar SchwartzMay 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Arts, History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Holiday Edition: Shavuot on the Tablet website on May 27, 2020.
Western Wall, Jerusalem, Shavuot. Image: Daniel Majewski. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

The Philip Roth Archive

By Tamar SchwartzMay 26, 2020May 26, 2020 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: The Philip Roth Archive: A fan’s obsessive rummage through the letters and papers of the writer who died two years ago today reveals a playful, funny, brilliant man by Jesse Tisch on the Table website on May 22, 2020.

YIVO’s “Old Friend and Teacher”: Simon Dubnow and his Relationship to the Yiddish

By Tamar SchwartzMay 25, 2020May 25, 2020 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: YIVO’s “Old Friend and Teacher”: Simon Dubnow and his Relationship to the Yiddish by Cecile E. Kuznitz from the Scientific Institute Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook XV 2016. Note: The file starts with the Yearbook front matter.

What Survives by Phyllis Skoy Runner up for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize

By Tamar SchwartzMay 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: Description of What Survives by Phyllis Skoy, winner Runner up in the category of Legacy Fiction of the 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Prize.
Click Here to Read about and Purchase: What Survives by Phyllis Skoy from IPBooks.net
Click Here to Read about and Purchase: Myopia: A Memoir by Phyllis Skoy from IPBooks.net

Review of Smoke Ring Day by Andrew Fisher

By Tamar SchwartzMay 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Books, Literature

Click Here to Read: Review of Smoke Ring Day by Andrew Fisher, Reviewed by Tim Schmoler.
Click Here to Purchase: Smoke Ring Day By Andrew Fisher from IPBooks.net

Virginia and the Woolf

By Tamar SchwartzMay 14, 2020May 14, 2020 History, Literature

Click Here to Read: Virginia and the Woolf: A drive across Hitler’s Germany and Austria in May 1935 made Leonard Woolf’s Jewishness real by Jonathan Wilson on the Tablet Website on May 14, 2020.
Engagement photograph, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 23 July 1912, a month before their wedding. Photograph taken at Dalingridge Place, the Sussex home of Virginia’s half-brother, George DuckworthPublic Domain via Wikimedia Commons.