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Essay Is There a Jewish Literary Renaissance? Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His most recent books are the collection of essays Singer’s Typewriter… Ilan Stavans December 24, 2012
Nonfiction Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way Harry Brod
Nonfiction Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life Laura Arnold Leibman
Nonfiction A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis the Season to Be Jewish Joshua Eli Plaut; Jonathan D. Sarna, fwd.
Essay Sports Is Like Hollywood: They’re Both Jewish! Marc Tracy is the co-editor of the new book Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.In… Marc Tracy November 13, 2012
Nonfiction Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America: Essays in Memory of Leah Levitz Fishbane, ז״ ל Eitan P. Fishbane and Jonathan D. Sarna, eds.
Nonfiction Race, Rights, & Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969 Dean J. Franco
Visual Arts Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bruce Davidson, photographs
