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People of the Book — 70 episodes

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Encore Presentation: Remember to Eat and Other Stories by Meryl Ain

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REMEMBER TO EAT AND OTHER STORIES: Meryl Ain in conversation with Stewart Ain and Randi Brenowitz

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Jeff Weiss: FIGHTING BACK, Stan Andrews and the Birth of the Israeli Air Force

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Encore Presentation: Alex Kor: A Blessing, Not a Burden, a memoir from the child of two Holocaust survivors

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Sharon Gloger Friedman: THE OTHER EMMA

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Kitty Zeldis: ONE OF THEM

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AJ Sidransky on his new memoir: PLUMS, PAPRIKA, AND GHOSTS

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Julie Brill on HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: A Family Memoir and the Untold Story of the Holocaust in Serbia

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Marilyn Simon Rothstein: humor and realism in WHO LOVES YOU BEST, a novel about competing grandmothers

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Julie Metz: Eva and Eve—A Search for My Mother's Lost Childhood and What a War Left Behind

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Jacqueline Friedland: fertility, inequality, reproductive rights, and bodily autonomy in COUNTING BACKWARDS

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Encore Presentation: STRADDLING BLACK AND WHITE: Kim Salzman's novel about the immigration of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel

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Alex Kor: A Blessing, Not a Burden, a memoir from the child of two holocaust survivors

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Arthur Fischman: Meryl's 99 year old bibliophile cousin talks life and books

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Michelle Cameron discusses her new novel, Napoleon's Mirage, sequel to Beyond the Ghetto Gates

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Bylines and Blessings: Judy Gruen's memoir about balancing career, family, and Jewish values

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Encore Presentation: Meryl Frank's memoir UNEARTHED & the important lessons of the Holocaust

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Esther Goldenberg chats with Meryl about researching & writing The Scrolls of Deborah

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Rabbi Menachem Creditor, Dr. Ora Horn Prouser These Holy Days: A High Holiday Supplement After Oct 7

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Gila Green, author of WITH A GOOD EYE on People of the Book with Meryl Ain

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Talia Carner discusses the historical origins of THE BOY WITH THE STAR TATTOO

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Robert Yaffe, author of RELINQUISHED chats with Meryl Ain about his search for his birth family

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Shadows We Carry Anniversary Presentation: Meryl Ain in conversation with readers

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Encore Presentation: Michelle Cameron and Babylon, a novel of Jewish captivity

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Encore presentation: Rabbi Menachem Creditor, Am Yisrael Chai

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OFF TO JOIN THE CIRCUS: Deborah Kalb chats with Meryl about her delightful family saga

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STRADDLING BLACK AND WHITE: Kim Salzman's novel about the immigration of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel

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PLACES WE LEFT BEHIND with Jennifer Lang: a memoir about marriage, family, faith and life in Israel

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Am Yisrael Chai: a timely, moving interview with author and scholar Rabbi Menachem Creditor

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The Prophetess: Evonne Marzouk talks her new novel, Israel and the global increase in antisemitism

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Babylon: Michelle Cameron discusses her new novel, the Babylonian exile, and its meaning for today

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UNEARTHED: Meryl Frank talks about her new memoir & the important lessons of the Holocaust

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BESSIE: Author Linda Kass chats with Meryl about her new historical fiction novel

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THE MARRIAGE BOX: Corie Adjmi joins Meryl Ain for a wide ranging discussion sparked by her new novel

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A.J. Sidransky and Miriam Abrahams discuss INCIDENT AT SAN MIGUEL, based on events in Abrahams' family

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Encore Presentation: Becca Kantor, editorial director of the Jewish Book Council and Paper Brigade

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THE SYRIAN SUNSET: a sweeping novel of international intrigue about the Syrian Civil War.

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Renee Weingarten, founder of Renee’s Reading Club, in conversation with Meryl Ain, author of Shadows We Carry

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Special Presentation: Meryl Ain, author of SHADOWS WE CARRY, discusses the book with readers

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ONCE WE WERE HOME: author Jennifer Rosner discusses her new novel with Meryl Ain

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Women's History Month Encore Presentation: FRANKLY FEMINIST with Susan Weidman Schneider

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Encore Presentation for Women’s History Month: Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

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OUR LYING KIN: author Claudia Long discusses the weight of family secrets with Meryl Ain

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Becca Kantor, editorial director of the Jewish Book Council and Paper Brigade chats with Meryl Ain

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Linda Pressman chats with host Meryl Ain about her new memoir, JEWISH GIRLS GONE WILD

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Robin Kall, host of "Reading with Robin" and "The Cardigan Connection", chats with Meryl about all things books

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Kitty Zeldis chats with Meryl Ain about her new release, THE DRESSMAKERS OF PROSPECT HEIGHTS

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Author Deborah Levison chats with host Meryl Ain about her debut novel, A Nest of Snakes

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Meryl Ain chats with Nora Gold, editor of JewishFiction.net, about Jewish literature and also Nora's books

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Richard Kaye and Annette Schwarz Kaye chat with Meryl Ain about their new memoir, Revelation

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Episode 20: Meryl chats with Zibby Owens

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Meryl Ain interviews investigative journalist Isabel Vincent, author of Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan That Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich

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Episode 18: Meryl and husband Stewart chat with kidney donor and author Martha Gershun

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Episode 17: Meryl chats with author Elan Barnehama about his new book, Escape Route

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Episode 16: Meryl chats with Susan Weidman Schneider, co-editor of Frankly Feminist

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Meryl chats with Jacquie Herz, author of The Circumference of Silence

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Meryl chats with Ruth Rotkowitz and Rose Ross

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Meryl Interviews Roni Robbins, author of Hands of Gold

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Meryl interviews Brad Kolodny, author of The Jews of Long Island 1705-1918

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Meryl chats with Jacqueline Friedland, author of He Gets That From Me.

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Episode 10: Meryl chats with Marilyn Simon Rothstein

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Episode 9: Meryl interviews Lois Schaffer, author of From Bullet to Bullhorn

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Meryl Chats with Rabbi Dan Ornstein about his book, Cain v. Abel : A Jewish Courtroom Drama

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Meryl chats with Sharon Gloger Friedman

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People of the Book ep 6 -- Meryl interviews Esther Amini

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Meryl interviews Dan Grunfeld, author of By the Grace of the Game

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Meryl talks with Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

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Ep. 3: Meryl interviews Thane Rosenbaum about his new non-fiction book -- Saving Free Speech…from Itself.

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Ep 2: Julie Zuckerman and The Book of Jeremiah

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An interview with Michelle Cameron: Beyond the Ghetto Gates