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    Cover of Recovering "Yiddishland": Threshold Moments in American Literature
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    Recov­er­ing ​“Yid­dish­land”: Thresh­old Moments in Amer­i­can Literature
    Merle L. Bachman
    Cover of Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics
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    Writ­ing in the Dark: Essays on Lit­er­a­ture and Politics
    David Gross­man
    Jes­si­ca Cohen
    Cover of Arguing The Modern Jewish Canon: Essays on Literature and Culture in Honor of Ruth R. Wisse
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    Argu­ing The Mod­ern Jew­ish Canon: Essays on Lit­er­a­ture and Cul­ture in Hon­or of Ruth R. Wisse
    Justin Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint, and Rachel Rubinstein, eds.
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    Mediter­ranean Pas­sages: Read­ings from Dido to Derrida
    Miriam Cooke, Erdag Goknar, Grant Parker, eds.
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    Anglo-Jew­ish Women Writ­ing the Holo­caust: Dis­placed Witnesses
    Phyllis Lassner
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    One Hun­dred Great Jew­ish Books: Three Mil­len­nia of Jew­ish Conversation
    Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
    Cover of Lucky Bruce: A Literary Memoir
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    Lucky Bruce: A Lit­er­ary Memoir
    Bruce Jay Friedman
    Cover of American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction
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    Amer­i­can Tal­mud: The Cul­tur­al Work of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Fiction
    Ezra Cappell
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    Exiles on Main Street: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writ­ers and Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary Culture
    Julian Levinson
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    Read­ing and Think­ing about Books

    On Mon­day, Tom Fields-Mey­er took a look at autism and God. He will be blog­ging all week for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing. Every…
    Tom Fields-Mey­er
    November 9, 2011
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    Trau­mat­ic Vers­es: On Poet­ry in Ger­man from the Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, 1933 – 1945
    Andres Nader
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    Sephardic Amer­i­can Voic­es: Two Hun­dred Years of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
    Diane Matza, ed.
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    The Image of the Jews in Greek Lit­er­a­ture: The Hel­lenis­tic Period
    Bezalel Bar-Kochva
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    A Thou­sand Dark­ness­es: Lies and Truth in Holo­caust Fiction
    Ruth Franklin
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    Lit­er­ary Pass­ports: The Mak­ing of Mod­ernist Hebrew Fic­tion in Europe
    Shachar M. Pinsker
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    Mod­ern Jew­ish Lit­er­a­tures: Inter­sec­tions and Boundaries
    Sheila E. Jelen, Michael P. Kramer, and L. Scott Lerner, eds.
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