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Items with the tag:

alternate history

Cover of The Jewish Body: A History
Non­fic­tion
The Jew­ish Body: A History
Robert Jütte, Elizabeth Bredeck (Translator)
Poetry

Ak-mechet

David Osachy
June 7, 2021
Excerpt

Excerpt: In Dreams Together

Leslie Fazekas
April 19, 2021
Essay

Heal­ers of the Pale: A Hid­den Herbal Legacy

Deatra Cohen
April 5, 2021
Essay—From the Journal

The Silent Toil­ers Are No Longer Silent

Alex­is Landau
March 15, 2021
Cover of The Order
Fic­tion
The Order
Daniel Sil­va
Cover of The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
Non­fic­tion
The Beau­ty and the Ter­ror: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of the Ital­ian Renaissance
Cather­ine Fletcher
Essay

Renais­sance Revealed: The Oppres­sion of Jews in Italy in the 1500s

Cather­ine Fletcher
September 14, 2020
Cover of The Organs of Sense
Fic­tion
The Organs of Sense
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Cover of Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon
Non­fic­tion
Dig­ging Up Armaged­don: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon
Eric H. Cline
Interview

JBC Authors at the Table: Jan Eliasberg

Jan Elias­berg
June 16, 2020
Essay—Excerpt

The Sto­ry Behind the Sto­ry: A Trib­ute to Three Old Men

Craig Darch
May 28, 2020
Cover of Villa of Delirium
Fic­tion
Vil­la of Delirium
Adrien Goetz; Natasha Lehrer, trans.
Essay

‘The Obvi­ous Hero­ine’: Anna Solomon on the Book of Esther

Anna Solomon
May 4, 2020
Cover of The Convert
Fic­tion
The Con­vert
Stefan Hertmans; David McKay, trans.
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Fic­tion
How Yid­dish Changed Amer­i­ca and How Amer­i­ca Changed Yiddish
Ilan Sta­vans
Josh Lam­bert
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