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Nonfiction Jewish Sisters in Sobriety: Jewish Women’s Untold Stories of Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, and Co-Dependence and Recovery Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Service, Inc,
Jewish Text Hours of Devotion: Fanny Neuda’s Book of Prayers for Jewish Women Dinah Berland, ed.; M. Moritz Mayer, trans.
Nonfiction My Dear Daughter: Rabbi Benjamin Slonik and the Education of Jewish Women in Sixteenth-Century Poland Edward Fram
Nonfiction The First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life of Rachel Beer: Crusading Heiress and Newspaper Pioneer Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren
Nonfiction Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride Peter Zheutlin
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Pioneers of the Possible Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterAttention beautiful book lovers: Angella Nazarian (Life as a Visitor) has a new book coming out! Her latest title,… Naomi Firestone-Teeter January 24, 2012
Nonfiction Four Centuries of Jewish Women’s Spirituality: A Sourcebook Ellen M. Umansky & Dianne Ashton, eds. and intro.
Essay Destination Bat Mitzvahs Earlier this week, Shulamit Reinharz and Barbara Vinick wrote about the history of the bat mizvah and Barbara Vinick shared her own story. Today, Shulamit Reinharz… Barbara Vinick, Shulamit Reinharz January 13, 2012
