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Agnon’s Moon­struck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture
Ilana Pardes
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Unscrolled: 54 Writ­ers and Artists Wres­tle with the Torah
Roger Bennett, ed.
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Hot­house: The Art of Sur­vival and the Sur­vival of Art at America’s Most Cel­e­brat­ed Pub­lish­ing House, Far­rar, Straus & Giroux
Boris Kachka
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Mau­rice Sendak: A Cel­e­bra­tion of the Artist and His Work
Justin G. Schiller, Dennis M.V. David, Leonard S. Marcus; Maurice Sendak, illus.
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Woody on Rye: Jew­ish­ness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
Vincent Brook & Marat Grinberg, eds.
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Mix­ing Musics: Turk­ish Jew­ry and the Urban Land­scape of a Sacred Song
Maureen Jackson
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Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
Claudia Roth Pierpont
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Unclean Lips: Jews, Obscen­i­ty, and Amer­i­can Culture
Josh Lambert
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Beth Sholom Syn­a­gogue: Frank Lloyd Wright and Mod­ern Reli­gious Architecture
Joseph M. Siry
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Visu­al Arts
Kab­bal­ah in Art and Architecture
Alexander Gorlin
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Mas­ter­ing Hebrew Calligraphy
Izzy Pludwinski
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The­atri­cal Lib­er­al­ism: Jews and Pop­u­lar Enter­tain­ment in America
Andrea Most
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Ten Great Films
Stanley Kauffmann
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Nor­man Mail­er: A Dou­ble Life
J. Michael Lennon
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The Vil­lage
John Straus­baugh
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Kaf­ka: The Years of Insight
Reiner Stach; Shelley Frisch, trans.
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