Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg Yiddish Learning and creative non-fiction by writers

and creative non-fiction by writers who probe all matters Jewish

there are several masterpieces

the possibility of the new

Stolen Words is an epic story about the largest collection of Jewish books in the world—tens of millions of books that the Nazis looted from European Jewish families and institutions

Zimmer argues that anarchists

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg Yiddish Learning and creative non-fiction by writersAvi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to Harvard, he has only a senior thesis essay on Bugs Bunny to show for his effort. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, he remains stuck at a crossroads, unable to meet the lofty expectations of his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. And his romantic existence as a freelance obituary writer just isnt cutting it. Seeking directionand dental insuranceSteinberg takes a job as a librarian