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Essays

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Moth­ers and Oth­er Fic­tion­al Char­ac­ters: A Mem­oir in Essays
Nicole Graev Lipson
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Hap­pi­er Far
Diane Mehta
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A Dress Rehearsal for the Truth
Alan Shapiro
The book cover of The Braille Encyclopedia: Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn. The text is displayed in both braille and non-braille and is arranged like an eye chart, with each line getting smaller and smaller.
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The Braille Ency­clo­pe­dia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight
Nao­mi Cohn
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On Being Jew­ish Now: Reflec­tions from Authors and Advocates
Zib­by Owens
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The Snarling Girl and Oth­er Essays
Elisa Albert
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Exhi­bi­tions: Essays on Art and Atrocity
Jehanne Dubrow
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The Sacred Earth: Jew­ish Per­spec­tives on Our Planet
Andrue J. Kahn, ed.
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The Wan­der­ing Womb: Essays in Search of Home
S. L. Wisenberg
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The Best Strangers in the World: Sto­ries from a Life Spent Listening
Ari Shapiro
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Salt & Hon­ey: Jew­ish Teens on Fem­i­nism, Cre­ativ­i­ty, and Tradition 
Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib.
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Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin
Peter Orner
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Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashe­vis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer; David Stromberg, ed.
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George Soros: A Life In Full
Peter Osnos (Editor)
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Lib­er­al and Illib­er­al Arts: Essays (Most­ly Jewish)
Abraham Socher
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‘Mar­veling at How We Pulled Through’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Zib­by Owens

Jessie Sza­lay
April 26, 2021
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