Emily 🗣️ Tamkin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Emily 🗣️ Tamkin

A break from plugging my own book to plug @DrMarisaGFranco's! Platonic is out in a week! I've read it, it's excellent, you will learn so much about how to be a better friend (and also just a more secure person/how to think about going through life). Read this and preorder! https://t.co/bykHPi4GZG

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“Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities reminds us, again and again, of something too often forgotten: Jewry isn’t homogenous, and its ethnic character hasn’t always been static.” Grateful for this sharp @unherd piece https://t.co/AyQ14pe28y

Emily 🗣️ Tamkin

Today is Nora Ephron's birthday and even before I knew this I knew in my heart that Heartburn was written by a Taurus.

Emily 🗣️ Tamkin

"‘BAD JEWS’: Author Emily Tamkin will talk about her book, “Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities,” at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29 at Blue Cypress Books" It's true! I will! https://t.co/RsjwVkZaxO

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Also I've recommended both before but highly recommend Hasia Diner's The Jews of the United States and Rachel Kranson's Ambivalent Embrace, both of which push back against comfortable narratives.

Emily 🗣️ Tamkin

Feldman’s book reconciles competing understandings by putting forth his vision of Jewishness: to be a Jew is to struggle lovingly, with ourselves, with other Jews, and with Israel...he has written an appealing guide, or at least mapped out a starting point, for being a Jew today

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She's quoted in this piece but I really encourage anyone interested in this - and by this I mean intermarriage, how different movements think of it, etc - to read Keren McGinity's work, ie "Still Jewish." https://t.co/sQJi3oJkii

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This book, for all its flaws, is a first picture of this person in this place at this time. One hopes that, in the not-too-distant future, the war will be over, the story will continue and there will be other books to join it.