Moment Magazine is pleased to announce that Nadia Kalman, author of The Cosmopolitans, and Jane Ziegelman, author of 97 Orchard, have won the Moment Magazine 2010 Emerging Writer Awards. Founded in 2004, the awards recognize talented writers who have published at least one book and whose work confronts themes of interest to Jewish readers. Nadia Kalman won the fiction award for her book, The Cosmopolitans, which highlights the experience of Russian-Jewish parents and their Americanized children adjusting to a new way of life in Stamford, Connecticut. “In my novel, Russian-Jewish immigrants struggle to reconcile their origins and their present circumstances, and discover the many ways they become, and fail to become, true cosmopolitans,” says Kalman. “Moment—in its independence, its openness, and its commitment to empathy—is cosmopolitan in the best sense of the word. To receive this...

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