Congrats to the winners, Tablet subjects both
| 12:00 PM Jan 27, 2010
The 2010 nonfiction award of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature will go to not one but two books—both of which Tablet Magazine has featured. The victors are Sarah Abrevaya Stein for Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce and Kenneth B. Moss for Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution.
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A gift of sheep, a controversial collage, and more
| 2:00 PM Nov 25, 2009
• Turkeys aren’t the only animals that should be shaking in their boots this week. Israel and the Jewish community in Senegal have donated 99 sheep to needy Muslim families there to sacrifice for the holiday of Tabaski, which marks Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael, as “a symbolic gesture between Israel and Senegal, ...
Jews dominated the once-booming ostrich feather business. A historian finds out why.
| 12:00 PM Nov 24, 2008
“A well dressed woman nowadays is as fluffy as a downy bird fresh from the nest.” So read a line in a magazine nearly 100 years ago, when ostrich feathers represented the height of chic (and fashion copy had a long way to go). For decades, women from Berlin to San Francisco wore hats and ...
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