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Arts & Culture

Essay

How I Became an Illustrator

Ear­li­er this week, artist Jan Aron­son wrote about her illus­tra­tions for The Bronf­man Hag­gadah. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
Jan Aron­son
March 6, 2013
Essay

A Depar­ture From the Tra­di­tion­al: The Bronf­man Haggadah

Jan Aron­son is the illus­tra­tor of the The Bronf­man Hag­gadah pub­lished by Riz­zoli. Born in New Orleans, New York-based artist Jan Aron­son has had more than sev­en­ty solo…
Jan Aron­son
March 4, 2013
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The Rarest Blue: The Remark­able Sto­ry of an Ancient Col­or Lost to His­to­ry and Rediscovered
Baruch Sterman with Judy Taubes Sterman
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The Posen Library of Jew­ish Cul­ture and Civ­i­liza­tion, Vol­ume 10: 1973 – 2005
Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz, eds.
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Fic­tion
The Amer­i­can Sun & Wind Mov­ing Pic­ture Company
Jay Neugeboren
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Eat Some­thing: A Wise Sons Cook­book for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews
Rachel Levin
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Invent­ing the Mod­ern Yid­dish Stage: Essays in Dra­ma, Per­for­mance, and Show Business
Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry, eds.
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I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
Sylvie Simmons
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Dan­ger­ous Melodies: Clas­si­cal Music in Amer­i­ca from the Great War through the Cold War
Jonathan Rosen­berg
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The Yid­dish His­to­ri­ans and the Strug­gle for a Jew­ish His­to­ry of the Holocaust
Mark L. Smith
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Maybe You Should Talk to Some­one: A Ther­a­pist, Her Ther­a­pist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Got­tlieb
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The Rise of the Mod­ern Yid­dish Theater
Alyssa Quint
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of Amer­i­ca’s Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow
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Gen­er­a­tion Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Tele­vi­sion Era
Saul Auster­litz
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Fic­tion
The Sum­mer Demands
Deb­o­rah Shapiro
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Cha­gall, El Lis­sitzky, Male­vitch: The Russ­ian Avant-garde in Viteb­sk (1918−1922)
Angela Lampe
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