{"title":"Richard Michelson","description":"Richard Michelson's many books for children and adults have been named among the ten Best of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,  and The New Yorker. He has received a National Jewish Book Award (and twice been a finalist) and two Sydney Taylor Medals (and two honors) from the Association of Jewish Libraries. A native of Brooklyn, Michelson now lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has served two terms as Poet Laureate, hosts Northampton Poetry Radio, and owns an art gallery.","products":[{"product_id":"fannys-big-idea-how-jewish-book-week-was-born-hardcover","title":"Fanny's Big Idea: How Jewish Book Week Was Born - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn celebration of the 100th anniversary of Jewish Book Week, this engaging biography introduces children to the influential librarian and immigrant who originated the event.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFanny Goldstein immigrated to America from Russia when she was six. She loved the fact that in her new country she could borrow books for free and take part in all kinds of activities at the Saturday Evening Girls Club. Right away, her curiosity attracted the notice of the club's founder, who was also the head of the Boston Public Library. It wasn't long before Fanny was hired as the librarian's assistant, and then at thirty-three, as the first Jewish director of a Boston branch library. And when Fanny noticed how rarely Jewish families checked out books about their own history, she had an idea that would influence libraries and readers for decades to come: She decided to host a week-long party to celebrate Jewish books and culture. 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How do we come to terms with loss? How can art and language help us to cope with life and honor the dead? How does one act responsibly in a world that is at once beautiful and full of suffering-balanced precariously on the edge of despair and ruin?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith humor, anger, and tenderness, Richard Michelson's poems explore the boundaries between the personal and the political-and the deep connections between history and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up under the shadow of the Holocaust, in a Brooklyn neighborhood consumed by racial strife, Michelson's experiences were far from ordinary, yet they remain too much a part of the greater circle of poverty and violence to be dismissed as merely private concerns. In these poems, Michelson pays tribute to his father, a victim of gun violence, and honors his mother's surrender to dementia. 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