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    Interview

    ‘Philip Roth: The Biog­ra­phy’ — A Con­ver­sa­tion with Blake Bailey

    Don­ald Weber
    April 6, 2021
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    Non­fic­tion
    Philip Roth: The Biography
    Blake Bai­ley
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    Wild Vision­ary: Mau­rice Sendak in Queer Jew­ish Context
    Golan Y. Moskowitz
    Cover of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine
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    Songs in Dark Times: Yid­dish Poet­ry of Strug­gle from Scotts­boro to Palestine
    Amelia M. Glaser
    Cover of It Could Lead to Dancing: Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity
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    It Could Lead to Danc­ing: Mixed-Sex Danc­ing and Jew­ish Modernity
    Sonia Gollance
    Cover of The Power of a Tale:  Stories from the Israel Folklore Archives
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    The Pow­er of a Tale: Sto­ries from the Israel Folk­lore Archives
    Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg (eds.)
    Essay—From the Journal

    Mag­ic, Mem­o­ry, and Mass Mur­der: New Shtetl Lit­er­a­ture and the Long Back­shad­ow of Genocide

    Moriel Roth­man-Zech­er
    October 13, 2020
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    Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Nar­ra­tive, and Fate
    Daniel Mendel­sohn
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    A Hun­dred Acres of Amer­i­ca: The Geog­ra­phy of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary History
    Michael Hober­man
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    Who Wants to Be A Jew­ish Writer?: And Oth­er Essays
    Adam Kirsch
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    The Art of Bible Translation
    Robert Alter
    Essay

    Find­ing a Portable Home­land in Yiddish

    Ellen Cassedy
    September 28, 2018
    From the Journal

    The Jew­ish Women Writ­ers Who Made Their Mark on Café Culture

    Shachar Pinsker
    May 31, 2018
    Essay

    Who Is the Chaim Potok of Today?

    Beth Kissileff
    April 5, 2018
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    Ances­tral Tales: Read­ing the Bucza­cz Sto­ries of S.Y. Agnon
    Alan Mintz
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    30 Days, 30 Authors: Lau­rie Lico Albanese

    Cel­e­brate Jew­ish Book Month with #30days30authors! JBC invit­ed an author to share thoughts on #Jew­Lit for each day of Jew­ish Book Month. Watch, read, enjoy, and…
    Lau­rie Lico Albanese
    December 1, 2017
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