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Arts & Culture

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Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
Steven Bach
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Why This World: A Biog­ra­phy of Clarice Lispector
Ben­jamin Moser
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Kaf­ka: A Biography
Nicholas Murray
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Exiles on Main Street: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writ­ers and Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary Culture
Julian Levinson
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Visu­al Arts
Action/​Abstraction: Pol­lack, De Koon­ing, and Amer­i­can Art, 1950 – 1976
Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed.
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Jew­topia: The Cho­sen Book for the Cho­sen People
Bryan Fogel; Sam Wolfson
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Chil­dren’s
Four Sea­sons
Jane Breskin Zalben
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Chil­dren’s
Mar­cel Marceau: Mas­ter of Mime
Gloria Spielman; Manon Gauthier, illus.
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The Miri­am Tra­di­tion: Teach­ing Embod­ied Torah
Cia Sautter
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The Anato­my of Influ­ence: Lit­er­a­ture as a Way of Life
Harold Bloom
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Trau­mat­ic Vers­es: On Poet­ry in Ger­man from the Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, 1933 – 1945
Andres Nader
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The Uni­ver­si­ty of the Ghetto

Glo­ria Spiel­man​‘s most recent book, Mar­cel Marceau: Mas­ter of Mime, is now avail­able. Mar­cel Marceau: Mas­ter of Mime won a sil­ver medal in the 2011…
Glo­ria Spielman
October 31, 2011
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The Woman Who Dared: A Biog­ra­phy of Amy Levy
Christine Pullen
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The Mem­o­ry of All That: George Gersh­win, Kay Swift and My Fam­i­ly’s Lega­cy of Infidelities
Katharine Weber
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Wait­ing: Select­ed Nonfiction
Elizabeth Swados
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Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
Jeffrey Veidlinger
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