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Essays

Cover of Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times
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Against the Grain: Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­als in Hard Times
Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
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How to Suc­ceed in Busi­ness with­out Real­ly Crying
Car­ol Leifer
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Rock­et and Light­ship: Essays on Lit­er­a­ture and Ideas
Adam Kirsch
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Stars of David: Promi­nent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
Abi­gail Pogrebin
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Strength & Com­pas­sion: Pho­tographs and Essays
Eric Gre­it­ens
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The Neo­con­ser­v­a­tive Per­sua­sion: Select­ed Essays 1942 – 2009
Irving Kristol; Gertrude Himmelfarb, ed.; William Kristol, fwd.
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Woody on Rye: Jew­ish­ness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
Vincent Brook & Marat Grinberg, eds.
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The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
Jonathan Franzen and Karl Kraus
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Israeli Fem­i­nism Lib­er­at­ing Judaism: Blood and Ink
Bonna Devora Haberman
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Elie Wiesel: Jew­ish, Lit­er­ary, and Moral Perspectives
Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen, eds.
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A Jew­ish Pro­fes­sor’s Polit­i­cal Pun­dit­ry: Fifty-plus Years of Pub­lished Com­men­tary by Ron Rubin
Peri Devaney, ed.
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Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imag­i­na­tion, Memory
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler, eds.
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Invent­ing the Mod­ern Yid­dish Stage: Essays in Dra­ma, Per­for­mance, and Show Business
Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry, eds.
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Jew­ish Renais­sance and Revival in Amer­i­ca: Essays in Mem­o­ry of Leah Levitz Fish­bane, ז״ ל
Eitan P. Fishbane and Jonathan D. Sarna, eds.
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Liv­ing Jew­ish­ly: A Snap­shot of a Generation
Stefanie Pervos Bregman, ed.
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The Jew­ish Anno­tat­ed New Tes­ta­ment: New Revised Stan­dard Version
Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds.
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