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Cover of Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah: The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work
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Taint­ed Glo­ry in Han­del’s Mes­si­ah: The Unset­tling His­to­ry of the World’s Most Beloved Choral Work
Michael Maris­sen
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Danc­ing Jew­ish: Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Amer­i­can Mod­ern and Post­mod­ern Dance
Rebec­ca Rossen
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Noth­ing Like a Dame: Con­ver­sa­tions With the Great Women of Musi­cal Theater
Eddie Shapiro
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Wilde in Amer­i­ca: Oscar Wilde and the Inven­tion of Mod­ern Celebrity
David M. Friedman
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The New Dias­po­ra: The Chang­ing Land­scape of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Fiction
Victoria Aarons, Avinoam J. Patt, and Mark Shechner
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Visu­al Arts
Jew­ish Artists and the Bible in Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry America
Saman­tha Baskind
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Unstill Life: A Daugh­ter’s Mem­oir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction
Gabrielle Selz
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Rock­et and Light­ship: Essays on Lit­er­a­ture and Ideas
Adam Kirsch
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Visu­al Arts
The Wes Ander­son Collection
Matt Zoller Seitz; Eric C. Anderson, illus.; Michael Chabon, intro.
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Visu­al Arts
Cin­e­ma Judaica: The War Years, 1939 – 1949
Ken Sutak
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Death of a Holy Land: Reflec­tions in Con­tem­po­rary Israeli Fiction
Rose L. Levinson
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The For­ma­tion of the Jew­ish Canon
Timothy H. Lim
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Vio­lins of Hope: Vio­lins of the Holo­caust — Instru­ments of Hope and Lib­er­a­tion in Mankind’s Dark­est Hour
James A. Grymes
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The Late Starters Orchestra
Ari L. Goldman
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How Far Would You Go For Your Passion?

Lisa Barr is the author of the award-win­ning debut nov­el, Fugi­tive Col­ors (Arcade), a sus­pense­ful tale of an artist’s revenge on the ​“eve” of WWII. Today, she chimes…
Lisa Barr
March 27, 2014
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A Bro­ken Hal­lelu­jah: Rock and Roll, Redemp­tion and the Life of Leonard Cohen
Liel Lei­bovitz
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