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Shabbat Reading: Aaron Lansky's Outwitting History
#whatireadovershabbat Aaron Lansky's Outwitting History: The Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books (Algonquin Books,...

Yeshua Tolle
Mar 19, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place
#whatireadovershabbat Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place (1988; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000) We’ve all at some point been a tourist. To...

Yeshua Tolle
Mar 12, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery
#whatireadovershabbat Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery (1901; Penguin, 1986) You can read this book on many levels. As literature,...

Yeshua Tolle
Mar 5, 20231 min read


Shabbat Reading: Aida Levy-Hussen's How to Read African American Literature
#whatireadovershabbat Aida Levy-Hussen's How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of...

Yeshua Tolle
Feb 26, 20231 min read
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