I’m happy to announce that my recent book A Rich Brew is the winner of the 2019 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, in the Jewish Literature and Linguistics Category, given by the Association for Jewish Studies. Please join us for a reception on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 2:15 PM, and a coffee break at 3:45 – 4:15, […]
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A Rich Brew’ Review: A Remarkable Cultural Infusion Sholem Aleichem found a table and wrote stories while all around him customers drank coffee, read newspapers and talked politics. Norman Lebrecht reviews “A Rich Brew” by Shachar M. Pinsker. Reinhold Völkel, painting of Café Griensteidl, 1896. PHOTO: COURTESY OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS By Norman Lebrecht June 28,
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Sandee Brawarsky interviewed me on my new book “A Rich Brew: How Cafes Created Modern Jewish Culture” (NYU Press). Here is the article: http://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/?p=1270305
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I wrote a new post on the NYU Press blog. It’s about the social space of the coffeehouse, and who is “welcome” or “belong” there. I explore here current events and debates (the Starbucks Philadelphia incident, the recent closing of independent cafés in Tel Aviv), through the lens of the Jewish experience in coffeehouses in the 19th
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Mekarem Eljamal from the University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies did an interview with me about “A Rich Brew,” my new book from NYU Press. We spoke about the history of the coffeehouse, Jewish migration, the Middle East, and how I came to write this book. I really enjoyed the conversation with Mekarem.
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First review of my new book “A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture” (NYU Press) was published in the Publishers Weekly: “Pinsker (Literary Passports), professor of Hebrew literature and culture at the University of Michigan, makes clear the vital role literary cafés played in 19th- and 20th-century Western Jewish culture in this smart
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Women’s Hebrew Poetry on American Shores: Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant has been launched by Wayne State University Press. The book is a bilingual edition of Kleiman and Farmelant’s work in a large range of themes, moods, and styles, translated into English for the first time by Adriana X. Jacobs and Yosefa Raz.
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