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Children’s Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA Tanya Lee Stone; Gretchen Ellen Powers, illus.
Nonfiction Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, and Ashley Walters, eds.
Nonfiction First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America’s First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian Grace Kessler Overbeke
Excerpt Excerpt―Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History Annie Atura Bushnell, Lori Harrison-Kahan, Ashley Walters August 12, 2024
Nonfiction Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole Julia Watts Belser
Nonfiction Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals Ronnie A. Grinberg
Recommended Reading Ten Jewish Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month JBC Staff March 4, 2024