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Nonfiction Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built Mark Russ Federman
Nonfiction Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival Christopher Benfey
Nonfiction Jewish Megatrends: Charting the Course of the American Jewish Future Rabbi Sidney Schwarz
Nonfiction From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture Saba Soomekh
Essay Why it Matters that Marshall was Never Nominated for the Supreme Court Earlier this week, M. M. Silver wrote about the riches in Louis Marshall’s archive and explored why it took so long for someone to write a full-length biography of… M. M. Silver March 1, 2013
Essay Can Israel Help American Jews Recall Their Own Forgotten Heroes? Earlier this week, M. M. Silver wrote about the riches in Louis Marshall’s archive. He will be blogging here this week for Jewish Book Council and… M. M. Silver February 27, 2013
Essay Ten Percent of American Jewry’s Top 100 List M. M. Silver is a modern Jewish history scholar at Max Stern College of Emek Yezreel in Israel. His newest book, Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish… M. M. Silver February 25, 2013
Visual Arts Jews in America: From New Amsterdam to the Yiddish Stage Stephen D. Corrsin, Amanda Seigel and Kenneth Benson
Essay Finding a Tradition of His Own: A Southern Outsider by Beth KissileffSteve Stern’s most recent collection, The Book of Mischief, was published in September 2012 by Graywolf Press.Steve Stern is, in my opinion, the best… Beth Kissileff February 7, 2013
Nonfiction A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1800 – 1960 Gabriel M. Goldstein and Elizabeth E. Greenberg, eds.
Nonfiction City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, With a Visual Essay by Diana L. Linden Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed.
