Comments on: Free Tickets to the 2009 Twin Cities Jewish Book Fair Events

By: jacob

jacob — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:50:14 +0000

My favorite book is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (nee Alisa Rosenbaum). The protagonist sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry, while society’s most productive citizens progressively disappear. The book advocates the core tenets of Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and expresses her concept of human achievement. In doing so it expresses many facets of Rand’s philosophy, such as the advocacy of reason, individualism, the market economy and the failure of government coercion.
Not exactly a best-seller among jewish liberals who dominate our institutions but is certainly a favorite among libertarians like myself.

By: Leora Maccabee

Leora Maccabee — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:58:46 +0000

Our winners of a free People of the Book pass to the TC Jewish Book Fair are Steve Kaplan and Kevin Wall! Congrats!

By: Emily Cornell

Emily Cornell — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:11:57 +0000

Thanks to everybody who entered! We’ll be picking the winner (with the help of “The Hat”) later this morning!

By: Olivia H.

Olivia H. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:55:38 +0000

That is a really tough question, and I’d say the answer changes from month to month. One of my very favorite “Jewish books” with a Jewish author to boot is: “As a Driven Leaf” by Milton Steinberg. It’s an amazing work of historical fiction, and I learned so much about the Talmudic period by reading it. Best of all, there’s a fantastic (highly dramatized) story about Bruria in there, one of my favorite female, Jewish historical figures.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:46:36 +0000

So many great books out there!

My favorite ever author is Barbara Kingsolver – but she’s not Jewish.

I love The World to Come, by Dara Horn (and I like the new one a lot too, set during the Civil War) . . .