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    A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of Jew­ish Dress
    Eric Silverman
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    Alisa G. Solomon
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    Jules Chametzky
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    A Mah­zor From Worms: Art and Reli­gion in a Medieval Jew­ish Community
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    Hol­ly­wood’s Cho­sen Peo­ple: The Jew­ish Expe­ri­ence in Amer­i­can Cinema
    Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh Samuelson, eds.
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    A Poet­ics of Trau­ma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
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    Holo­caust Lit­er­a­ture: A His­to­ry and Guide
    David G. Roskies and Naomi Diamant
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    Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imag­i­na­tion, Memory
    Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler, eds.
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    Into the Light: The Heal­ing Art of Kalman Aron
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    Cross­ing Delancey: Roy­al Young on Lee Brozgold

    Ear­li­er this week, Roy­al Young dis­cussed his deci­sion to change his name, inter­viewed his grand­par­ents, and wrote about his par­ents’ reac­tion to his debut…
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    June 13, 2013
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    Cin­e­ma and Zion­ism: The Devel­op­ment of a Nation Through Film
    Ariel L. Feldestein; Merav Pagis, trans.
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    Jew­hoo­ing the Six­ties: Amer­i­can Celebri­ty and Jew­ish Identity
    David E. Kaufman
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    Sephardism: Span­ish Jew­ish His­to­ry and the Mod­ern Lit­er­ary Imagination
    Yael Halevi-Wise, ed.
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    The Holy or the Bro­ken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buck­ley & the Unlike­ly Ascent of ​“Hal­lelu­jah”
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