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Items with the tag:

diaspora

Interview

The Mag­ic of Our Cul­ture: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Cas­san­dra Clare

Simona Zaret­sky
March 3, 2025
Essay

The Mak­ing of Dias­po­ra in the Ancient World

Mal­ka Z. Simkovich
December 30, 2024
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The Diario: The Dar­ing Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to Amer­i­ca Dur­ing World War I
Alfred Ascher; Gloria J. Ascher, trans.
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Let­ters from Home: The Cre­ation of Dias­po­ra in Jew­ish Antiquity
Mal­ka Z. Simkovich
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Bad Jew: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest from the Min­sk Ghet­to to Netanyahu’s Israel
Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
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Tablets Shat­tered: The End of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Cen­tu­ry and the Future of Jew­ish Life
Joshua Leifer
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One for Each Night: The Great­est Chanukah Sto­ries of All Time
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Poet­ry
When There Was Light
Car­lie Hoffman
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The Neces­si­ty of Exile: Essays from a Dis­tance (Polit­i­cal Imagination)
Shaul Magid
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Who Are the Jews―And Who Can We Become?
Don­niel Hartman
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Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Community
Avi­ad Moreno
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The Mov­ing-Box Sukkah
Leah Rachel Berkowitz; Sharon Vargo, illus.
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