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Friday January 12, 2007

Shorts: The Arts

S.F. writer is book prize finalist

San Francisco writer Michael Lavigne is one of five finalists for the Jewish Book Council’s new $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

Lavigne drew attention for his novel “Not Me,” the story of a child of Holocaust survivors making discoveries about his parents’ past.

Other finalists are Naomi Alderman (“Disobedience”), Amir Gutfreund (“Our Holocaust”), Yael Hedaya (“Accidents”) and Tamar Yellin (“The Genizah at the House of Shepher”).

The winner will be announced in mid-March. The Sami Rohr Prize is the largest Jewish literary prize ever given, and is one of the largest literary prizes in the nation.

Guide to Jewish sites in England sells out

london | A new book documenting sites of Jewish interest in England has sold out its first printing.

“Jewish Heritage in England: An Architectural Guide” was published in late 2006 to coincide with the 350th anniversary of Jewish resettlement in England.

The guidebook sold thousands of copies in its first month, and publishers have ordered a second print run for January.

Written by Sharman Kadish, an academic in Jewish studies at the University of Manchester, the book showcases more than 300 sites of Jewish interest in Britain, mostly synagogues and cemeteries. — jta

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