Judy Brown
Judy Brown (pen name, Eishes Chayil) was raised in a world of Chassidic schools, synagogues, and summer camps and is a direct descendant of some of the major founders and leaders in the Chassidic world. She received her MFA from Bar Ilan University in Israel, and has been a writer of both Jewish...
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Judy Brown (pen name, Eishes Chayil) was raised in a world of Chassidic schools, synagogues, and summer camps and is a direct descendant of some of the major founders and leaders in the Chassidic world. She received her MFA from Bar Ilan University in Israel, and has been a writer of both Jewish fiction and non-fiction for over 10 years. She lives in New York City with her three children.
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Judy Brown's Books
This book just didn't work for me. The first half was excrutiatingly slow, told in an alternating timeline of the narrator at 9 years old and at 17 years old. There was such an information dump about Hasidic history and culture in the first part of the book that it felt disjointed and unfocused an...
This was a good, if painful book, that brought out a myriad of emotions; Frustration, anxiety, sadness, as it explored themes of abuse, guilt, anger and fear in a strict religious environment.It was a bit difficult in the beginning as their are alot of Jewish terms, but it is definitely worth stick...
It took me about 3 times longer to read this book than it should have taken, not because of the book just because I have not had more than 20 minutes to read in any given day for the past week. I feel a little like I did when I gave a not-so-glowing review to The Secret Holocaust Diaries that is th...
1.99 9/2/12 has anyone read this yet
I was going to go to bed and write a review in the morning but I can't sleep because this book has affected me so much. I'm really quite disturbed and upset by this so if you're looking for something light and easy: stay away from Hush.The first piece of advice I would give someone who's going to re...
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