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Arts & Culture

Cover of Call it English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature
Non­fic­tion
Call it Eng­lish: The Lan­guages of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Literature
Hana Wirth-Nesher
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Non­fic­tion
Adven­tures in Yid­dish­land: Postver­nac­u­lar Lan­guage and Culture
Jeffrey Shandler
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The New Jew in Film: Explor­ing Jew­ish­ness and Judaism in Con­tem­po­rary Cinema
Dr. Nathan Abrams
Interview

The Birth of a Book Cov­er: Mov­ing Waters

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterEver won­der about the sto­ry behind a book’s cov­er? Well, we do. All the time. So, we asked Racelle Rosett, and the team behind her…
Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
June 18, 2012
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Chil­dren’s
Out of the Shad­ows: An Artist’s Journey
Neil Waldman
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Telling the Lit­tle Secrets: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Writ­ing Since the 1980’s
Janet Handler Burstein
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Ori­en­tal­ism and the Hebrew Imagination
Yaron Peleg
Cover of A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky
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A Russ­ian Jew of Blooms­bury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky
Galya Diment
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Fic­tion
Scrib­blers on the Roof: Con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can Jew­ish Fiction
Melvin Jules Bukiet; David G. Roskies, eds.
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Klezmer: Book One: Tales of the Wild East
Joann Sfar; Alexis Siegel, trans.
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Read­ing Char­lotte Salomon
Michael P. Steinberg; Monica Bohm-Duchen, eds.
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It Takes Two

Ear­li­er this week, Dvo­ra Mey­ers wrote about being an Ortho­dox Jew­ish gym­nast. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.As…
Dvo­ra Meyers
May 17, 2012
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Act­ing Jew­ish: Nego­ti­at­ing Eth­nic­i­ty on the Amer­i­can Stage and Screen
Henry Bial
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Marc Cha­gall and the Lost Jew­ish World
Benjamin Harshav
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Wolf Trapped: The Life and Death of a Young Artist in Hitler’s Europe
Robert Follett as told by Peter Natan
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Vagi­na: A New Biography
Nao­mi Wolf
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