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Essay

Desanc­ti­fy­ing Kafka

Ross Ben­jamin
January 9, 2023
Essay

The Dif­fer­ences Between Us

Arman­do Lucas Correa
January 9, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
Onto Cen­ter Stage: The Bib­li­cal Woman
Sara Reguer
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Non­fic­tion
Invent­ing William of Nor­wich: Thomas of Mon­mouth, Anti­semitism, and Lit­er­ary Cul­ture, 1150 – 1200
Heather Blur­ton
Interview

Frankly Fem­i­nist and Paper Brigade: Edi­tors Susan Wei­d­man Schnei­der, Yona McDo­nough, Bec­ca Kan­tor and Car­ol Kauf­man in Conversation

JBC Staff
November 22, 2022
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Non­fic­tion
The Object of Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture: A Mate­r­i­al History
Bar­bara E. Mann
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Poet­ry
Dear Selec­tion Committee
Melis­sa Studdard
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Non­fic­tion
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka; Ross Benjamin, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
Women Writ­ing Jew­ish Moder­ni­ty, 1919 – 1939
Alli­son Schachter
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Non­fic­tion
Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Sev­en-and-a-Half-Year Jour­ney through the Talmud
Adam Kirsch
Essay

A Book Hap­pened Around Me: Writ­ing ​‘These Are the Devel­op­ments of the Human’

Ethan Daniel Davidson
December 19, 2021
Essay

On Trans­lat­ing Irène Némirovsky

San­dra Smith
November 29, 2021
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Fic­tion
The Pes­simists
Bethany Ball
Essay

Poet­ic Justice

Amy Oringel
October 19, 2021
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Non­fic­tion
The Philip Roth We Don’t Know: Sex, Race, and Autobiography
Jacques Berlinerblau
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