Creator Bio
Hugh Nissenson
1933–2013
Born in Brooklyn, Hugh Nissenson was a journalist, novelist, and short story writer. In 1961, Nissenson covered the Eichmann trial in Israel for Commentary. He received the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Ohioana Books Award, and a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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The Days of Awe
“All vows and oaths we take, all promises and obligations, we make to God between this Yom Kippur and the next we hereby publicly retract in the event that we should forget them, and hereby declare…