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Items with the tag:

alternate history

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Rooms for Vanishing
Stu­art Nadler
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Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Sci­ence Fic­tion and Fan­ta­sy of the 1960s and 70s: The Post-Holo­caust Authors
Valerie Estelle Frankel
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Death Strikes: The Emper­or of Atlantis
Dave Maass
Patrick Lay
Essay

Pic­ture Books as Fem­i­nist Midrash

Eri­ca Lyons
September 4, 2023
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Chil­dren’s
Black Bird, Blue Road
Sofiya Paster­nack
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Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Cul­ture Between Canon and Heresy
David Biale
Interview

Gen­der and Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty as Part of the Recipe: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jen­nieke Cohen

Emi­ly Schneider
February 9, 2023
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The Plot of a Mys­tery Hid­den in a Dead Sea Scroll

Ellen Frankel
May 4, 2022
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Fic­tion
The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Translator)
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What is the Point of Anti­semitism in His­tor­i­cal Fiction?

David Liss
November 22, 2021
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Noth­ing the Same, Every­thing Haunt­ed: The Bal­lad of Motl the Cowboy
Gary Barwin
Essay

What Kind of a Name is Osnos?

Peter Osnos
August 30, 2021
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JBC Staff
August 9, 2021
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Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
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Non­fic­tion
Ashke­nazi Herbal­ism: Redis­cov­er­ing the Herbal Tra­di­tions of East­ern Euro­pean Jews
Deatra Cohen, Adam Siegel
Essay

A Return to the Source: On Trans­lat­ing Tobie Nathan’s ​‘A Land Like You’

Joyce Zonana
June 14, 2021
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