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    Cover of Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South
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    Wan­der­ing Dix­ie: Dis­patch­es from the Lost Jew­ish South
    Sue Eisen­feld
    Essay

    When Silence Speaks Volumes 

    Mar­ra B. Gad
    June 12, 2020
    Essay

    Writ­ing Out of Our Minds

    Rachel DeWoskin
    June 10, 2020
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    Chil­dren’s
    Ezra’s BIG Shab­bat Question
    Aviva L. Brown, Anastasia Knavaliu (illus.)
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Place at the Table
    Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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    The Col­or of Love: A Sto­ry of a Mixed Race Jew­ish Girl
    Mar­ra B. Gad
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    A Fist for Joe Louis and Me
    Trinka Hikes Noble (auth.), Nicole Tadgell (illus.)  
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    Fic­tion
    Ariel Sam­son: Free­lance Rabbi
    MaN­ish­tana
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    Good Talk: A Mem­oir in Conversations
    Mira Jacob
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    Fic­tion
    Col­or Me In
    Natasha Díaz
    From the Journal

    A Sim­ple Girl

    Grow­ing up, Ayelet Tsabari grap­pled with Mizrahi stereo­types — and found inspi­ra­tion in Ofra Haza, Israel’s icon­ic, Yem­i­ni singer.

    Ayelet Tsabari
    May 13, 2019
    Interview

    ‘Preach­i­ness Doesn’t Make for Good Fic­tion’: Dana Czap­nik and Sam Gra­ham-Felsen in Conversation

    Two debut authors dis­cuss their com­ing-of-age nov­els set in the grit­ty New York and Boston of the nineties.

    Sam Gra­ham-Felsen, Dana Czap­nik
    April 30, 2019
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    The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America
    Bruce D. Haynes
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    Fic­tion
    What Makes Us
    Rafi Mittlefehldt
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Tug­ging String: A Nov­el About Grow­ing Up Dur­ing the Civ­il Rights Era
    David T. Greenberg
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    Let’s Talk About Race
    Julius Lester, Karen Barbour (illus.)
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