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Esther Nuss­baum

Esther Nuss­baum, the head librar­i­an of Ramaz Upper School for 30 years, is now edu­ca­tion and spe­cial projects coor­di­na­tor of the Halachic Organ Donor Soci­ety. A past edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World, she con­tin­ues to review for this and oth­er publications.
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Edouard Vuil­lard: A Painter and His Mus­es, 1890 – 1940
Stephen Brown, with an essay by Richard R. Brettell
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From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jew­ish Life in America
Michael Grunberger, ed.
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Visu­al Arts
Jew­ish Art: A Mod­ern History
Samantha Baskind and Larry Silver
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Abstrac­tion and the Holocaust
Mark Godfrey
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Fic­tion
Mat­ri­mo­ny
Joshua Henkin
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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Janet Malcolm
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Poet­ry
Sec­ond Dias­porist Man­i­festo: A New Kind of Long Poem in 615 Free Verses
R. B. Kitaj
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The Sis­tine Secrets: Michelan­gelo’s For­bid­den Mes­sages in the Heart of the Vatican
Benjamin Blech; Roy Doliner
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Norman Gershman
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Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin
Lisa Thaler
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The Sculp­ture of Louise Nevel­son: Con­struct­ing a Legend
Brooke Kamin Rapaport, ed.
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Alfred Kaz­in’s Journals
Richard M. Cook, ed.
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Action/​Abstraction: Pol­lack, De Koon­ing, and Amer­i­can Art, 1950 – 1976
Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed.
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Arnold Daghani’s Mem­o­ries of Mikhailowka: The Illus­trat­ed Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor
Deborah Schultz and Edward Timms, eds.
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Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces for the 21st Century
Ena Giurescu Heller, ed.

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