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People of the Book

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On People of the Book, award-winning author Meryl Ain chats with notable authors, and brings you the best in books with Jewish content. From novels to memoirs to short stories to scholarly tomes, we cover a wide range of reads. Our freewheeling conversations are thought provoking and intimate. They span historical themes, contemporary issues, the writing process, and the influences that inspire and empower writers to tell their stories and share them with the world.

Recent Episodes

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

    1 month ago

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

    2 months ago

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

    3 months ago

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

    4 months ago

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

    5 months ago

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

    6 months ago

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

    6 months ago

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

    7 months ago

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

    8 months ago

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

    8 months ago