Welcome to Times Will Tell, the weekly podcast from The Times of Israel. This week we’re speaking with Max Gross, the author of the award-winning “The Lost Shtetl.” The book came out in October 2020 and we had a great no-spoilers interview with him then that was written by our writer Renee Ghert-Zand. Since then, it’s won a bunch of Jewish book awards.

Podcast host Amanda Borschel-Dan recently read the book and loved it, so we’re having a fresh conversation in which we’re lifting up the curtain and spoiling away.

WARNING: If you intend to read this crazy novel about a shtetl that somehow drops off the face of the Earth and misses the Holocaust, the Cold War, fast-food, consumerism, and the internet revolution, stop now and do not listen to this episode!

Otherwise, you’ll hear Gross answer all sorts of frank questions about this enchanting, sobering book, that had us crying on the final page.

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