Why read The Art of Blessing the Day?

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A prize-winning collection of old and new poems that celebrate the Jewish experience, about which the poet Lyn Lifshin writes: "An exquisite book. The whole collection is strong, passionate, and poignant, but the mother and daughter poems, fierce and emotional, with their intense ambivalence, pain and joy, themes of separation…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Art of Blessing the Day as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Elizabeth Zelvin

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I love this book because it's about being a Jewish American woman in the same everyday way that I am.

There are so few books about that experience, not being religious, but about a culture and a spirit and little things that are woven into the fabric of life: Yiddish words and certain foods and ethics and values that we don't even think about.

When I read these poems, they lift me up and make me feel at home at the same time. You don't have to be Jewish to love them! And that's a Jewish joke.

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