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    Essays

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    Col­lect­ed Stories
    Bruno Schulz (auth.), Rivka Galchen (foreward)
    Interview

    It’s a Whole Spiel: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Kather­ine Locke and Lau­ra Silverman

    Kather­ine Locke, Lau­ra Silverman
    September 9, 2019
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    Non­fic­tion
    #Qui­et­ingTh­e­Si­lence: Per­son­al Stories
    The Blue Dove Foundation
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    Who Wants to Be A Jew­ish Writer?: And Oth­er Essays
    Adam Kirsch
    Essay

    Part II: The Lega­cy Continues

    Nadine Epstein
    July 1, 2019
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    For Sin­gle Moth­ers Work­ing as Train Conductors
    Laura Esther Wolfson
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    Jour­neys: An Amer­i­can Story
    Andrew Tisch & Mary Skafidas
    Cover of In the Shadow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song
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    In the Shad­ow of King Saul: Essays on Silence and Song
    Jerome Charyn
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    From For­bid­den Fruit to Milk and Hon­ey: A Com­men­tary on Food in the Torah
    Diana Lipton
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    One Cou­ple Two Faiths: Sto­ries of Love and Religion
    Mar­i­on Usher
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    Look Alive Out There
    Sloane Crosley
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    Philip Roth: Why Write? Col­lect­ed Non­fic­tion 1960 – 2013 (The Library of America)
    Philip Roth
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    Can­dies from Heaven
    Gil Hovav
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    Land­slide: True Stories
    Minna Proctor
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    The Genius of Judaism
    Bernard-Henri Levy; Steven B. Kennedy, trans.
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    The Essen­tial Hay­im Greenberg
    Mark A. Raider, ed.; Paul Mendes-Flohr, fwd.
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