Hanukkah reminds us of many things, but this year—one of the rare years when the holiday reaches from December into January—it also highlights a creative duality of our…
Shepard, an Italian Catholic whose wife’s father was Jewish, spent more than two years conducting exhaustive research for his latest book, culminating in a trip to Warsaw.
Written from a child’s simple, direct point of view, Jim Shepard's "The Book of Aron" has won several awards, the most recent being Hadassah Magazine’s annual literary award.