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Nonfiction A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz David I. Shyovitz
Nonfiction Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance Elisheva Baumgarten
Nonfiction Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
Nonfiction The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Cookbook Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk to Marrakesh, More Than 100 Unforgettable Dishes Updated for Today’s Kitchen Janna Gur
Essay When You’re A Jet You Stay A Jet Earlier this week, Kathy Ebel wrote about Nice Jewish Girl protagonists from New York City. Her first novel, Claudia Silver to the Rescue (Houghton Mifflin… Kathy Ebel June 19, 2013
Nonfiction The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz Ephraim Kanarfogel
Nonfiction Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return Margaret McMullan