Thank you, Erika! I was moved by Sara Lippman's essay and learned a
delightfully melancholy new word there. "Vellichor," coined by John
Koenig (*The
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows*), means "the strange wistfulness of used
bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time — filled
with
Good morning, everyone:
As many of you know, each week I post a collection of "Pre-Shabbat Jewish
Literary Links" on the My Machberet blog. This week's post kicks off with a
magnificent essay by Sara Lippmann (on the popular book-focused site The
Millions) on the dismantling of a Jewish library.
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