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Women's Studies

Cover of One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
Non­fic­tion
One Hun­dred Sat­ur­days: Stel­la Levi and the Search for a Lost World
Michael Frank
Cover of The Thread Collectors: A Novel
Fic­tion
The Thread Col­lec­tors: A Novel
Alyson Rich­man
Shaunna Edwards
Cover of I Kept Walking: The Unlikely Story of a Persian Woman with Polio
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I Kept Walk­ing: The Unlike­ly Sto­ry of a Per­sian Woman with Polio
Minou Mich­lin
Cover of Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman
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Rahel Varn­hagen: The Life of a Jew­ish Woman
Hannah Arendt; Clara Winston and Richard Winston, trans.
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Women Writ­ing Jew­ish Moder­ni­ty, 1919 – 1939
Alli­son Schachter
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The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Dis­abled, Zionist
Sarah Imhoff
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Bib­li­cal Women and Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Mid­dle Ages
Eli­she­va Baumgarten
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So Many Brave and Bril­liant Jew­ish Women, So Lit­tle Time

Nadine Epstein
December 20, 2021
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RBG’s Brave & Bril­liant Women: 33 Jew­ish Women to Inspire Everyone
Nadine Epstein
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The Weavers of Traut­e­nau: Jew­ish Female Forced Labor in the Holocaust
Janine P. Holc
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Cheeky: A Head-to-Toe Memoir
Ariel­la Elovic
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Let’s Get Phys­i­cal: How Women Dis­cov­ered Exer­cise and Reshaped the World
Danielle Fried­man
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Jalan-Jalan: A Jour­ney of Wan­der­lust and Motherhood
Mar­go Weinstein
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Lis­ten, World!: How the Intre­pid Elsie Robin­son Became Amer­i­ca’s Most-Read Woman
Alli­son Gilbert
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