American - Author | June 27, 1951 -
Biblical names are hot again.
Anita Diament
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November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.
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My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.
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Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
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As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.
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