Apply by March 15 for Summer 2012.

Core Faculty:

Great Jewish Books Academic Director Josh Lambert has served as a Dorot Assistant Professor/ Faculty Fellow in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Lambert holds a BA from Harvard and a PhD from the University of Michigan in English Literature. His teaching and research focus on American Jewish literature and culture, in English and Yiddish. He is the author of American Jewish Fiction: A JPS Guide and a contributing editor to Tablet, and his work has appeared in The Jewish Graphic Novel and Sleepaway: Writings on Summer Camp, and other books. Lambert writes reviews and essays for publications including the Forward, the Los Angeles Times, and the Globe and Mail.

Lambert is the Academic Director of the Yiddish Book Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

 Sana Krasikov was born in Ukraine, lived in Georgia, and came to the US at the age of eight. Her debut collection of stories, One More Year, illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet Empire, won praise among critics and readers and was translated into twelve languages. Krasikov was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library's Young Lions prize, received a National Book Foundation "5 under 35" award, and won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. She is currently writing a novel.

 Visiting Authors:

Allegra Goodman is the author of The Cookbook Collector, Intuition, Paradise Park, Kaaterskill Falls, The Family Markowitz, and Total Immersion. The Other Side of the Island is her first book for younger readers. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Commentary, and Ploughshares, Prize Stories: the O. Henry Awards, Best American Short Stories, The New York Times Book Review, and The Boston Globe. Raised in Honolulu, Goodman studied English and philosophy at Harvard and received a PhD in English literature from Stanford. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award, the Salon Award for Fiction, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced study.

Adam Kirsch is a senior editor at The New Republic and a columnist for Tablet Magazine. A poet and literary critic, he is the author of two collections of poetry, The Thousand Wells and Invasions; The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry; and a short biography, Benjamin Disraeli. His most recent book, Why Trilling Matters, is a study of the critic Lionel Trilling. His essays and reviews appear regularly in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Poetry, and other publications. He has taught at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College.

Tuition, room, meals, and books will be provided for accepted students through a generous grant from Michael Steinhardt.

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