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    on literature

    Essay

    Isaac Bashe­vis Singer and ​‘Faith in the Yid­dish Language’

    David Stromberg
    May 9, 2022
    Essay

    Gisel­la Perl and Our ​‘Haunt­ed Present’

    Leah Grisham
    April 25, 2022
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    Last Resort
    Andrew Lip­stein
    From the Journal

    The World of Aus­tralian Jew­ish Literature

    Goldie Gold­bloom
    April 11, 2022
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    Fic­tion
    The Pages
    Hugo Hamilton
    From the Journal

    ‘The Trag­ic Cir­cle and the Melior­ist Line’: A con­ver­sa­tion with Colum McCann and Joshua Cohen

    Bec­ca Kantor
    January 31, 2022
    Essay

    Com­ic Books Are Jew­ish Literature

    Roy Schwartz
    January 25, 2022
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    Chil­dren’s
    Dear Mr. Dickens
    Nancy Churnin, Bethany Stancliffe (Illustrator)
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    Women Writ­ing Jew­ish Moder­ni­ty, 1919 – 1939
    Alli­son Schachter
    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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    Poet­ic Justice

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

    Wel­come to ​‘The Vil­lage Life’

    Izzy Abrahm­son
    October 12, 2021
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