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race & ethnicity

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Do You Find the Inter­ra­cial Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in My Nov­el Unbe­liev­able? Good!

Ali­na Adams
April 28, 2025
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Non­fic­tion
The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Sto­ry of Ship­wreck, Sur­vival, and Scan­dal in Vic­to­ri­an Africa
Adam Rovn­er
Essay

Uncov­er­ing His­to­ry: Writ­ing ​“The Jew Who Would Be King”

Adam Rovn­er
April 14, 2025
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The New Internationals
David Wright Faladé
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Chil­dren’s
Chutz­pah Girls: 100 Tales of Dar­ing Jew­ish Women
Julie Sil­ver­stein
Tami Schloss­berg Pruwer
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Ain’t No Grave
Mary Glick­man
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Ter­ri Libenson
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The Last Dekrepitzer
Howard Langer
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Kyra Lisse
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Mil­len­ni­al Jew­ish Stars: Nav­i­gat­ing Racial Anti­semitism, Mas­culin­i­ty, and White Supremacy
Jonathan Branf­man
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Per­fect Match: The Sto­ry of Althea Gib­son and Angela Buxton
Lori Dubbin; Amanda Quartey, illus.
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Car­ry­ing a Big Schtick: Jew­ish Accul­tur­a­tion and Mas­culin­i­ty in the Twen­ti­eth Century
Miri­am Eve Mora
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Israel’s Black Pan­thers: The Rad­i­cals Who Punc­tured a Nation’s Found­ing Myth
Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Demys­ti­fy­ing Anti­semitism with Stars and Sitcoms

Jonathan Branf­man
June 17, 2024
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What Jew­ish Looks Like
Liz Kleinrock and Caroline Kusin Pritchard; Iris Gottlieb, illus.
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