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Arts & Culture

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How Mate­ri­als Speak: A Lega­cy of Puppetry

Gen­naRose Nethercott
September 12, 2022
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Florine Stet­theimer: A Biography
Bar­bara Bloemink
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All About Me! My Remark­able Life in Show Business
Mel Brooks
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Poet­ry
Out of Nowhere: Poems
Susan Comni­nos
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Fic­tion
Cyclo­rama
Adam Langer
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The Lit­er­ary Mafia: Jews, Pub­lish­ing, and Post­war Amer­i­can Literature
Josh Lam­bert
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Jews in Amer­i­can Publishing

Josh Lam­bert
July 25, 2022
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Chil­dren’s
My Hands Make the World
Amalia Hoff­man
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What’s So Fun­ny?: A Car­toon­ist’s Memoir
David Sipress
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Non­fic­tion
Is Super­man Cir­cum­cised?: The Com­plete Jew­ish His­to­ry of the World’s Great­est Hero
Roy Schwartz
Essay

‘The Black Swan of Israel’: Remem­ber­ing Else Lasker-Schüler

James J. Conway
June 20, 2022
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What Makes an Apple?: Six Con­ver­sa­tions about Writ­ing, Love, Guilt, and Oth­er Pleasures
Amos Oz with Shira Hadad, Jessica Cohen (Translator)
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Poet­ry
The Dis­card­ed Life
Adam Kirsch
Essay

Imag­i­na­tion and Espi­onage: Stock­holm Before WWII

Daniel Birn­baum
May 30, 2022
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Paper Brigade’s Short Sto­ry Club: Con­tin­u­ing the Con­ver­sa­tion with Basia Winograd

JBC Staff
May 25, 2022
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The Long Corner
Alexan­der Maksik
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