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From the Jew­ish Provinces: Select­ed Stories
Fradl Shtok, Allison Schachter and Jordan D. Finkin (Translators)
Essay

Wel­come to ​‘The Vil­lage Life’

Izzy Abrahm­son
October 12, 2021
Poetry

Nar­ra­tive Paint­ing #38

Babo Kamel
October 4, 2021
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Fic­tion
The Wood­carver’s Daughter
Yona Zeldis McDonough, Kaja Kajfez (Illustrator)
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Chil­dren’s
Nathan’s Song
Leda Schubert, Maya Ish-Shalom (Illustrator)
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Chil­dren’s
The Peo­ple’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Jus­tice With Art
Cynthia Levinson, Evan Turk (Illustrator)
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Fic­tion
The Slaugh­ter­man’s Daughter
Yaniv Iczkovits
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Love Like Water, Love Like Fire
Mikhail Iossel
Interview

The Infi­nite Opti­mist: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Yaniv Iczkovits

Bram Press­er
March 17, 2021
Interview

‘Water­shed Moments’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Max Gross

Bob Gold­farb
December 14, 2020
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Fic­tion
The Lost Shtetl
Max Gross
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Fic­tion
The Way Back
Gavriel Sav­it
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Home for the Hanukkah-Days

Simona Zaret­sky
December 4, 2020
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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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holo­caust Memoir
Esther Safran Foer
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Stepchil­dren of the Shtetl: The Des­ti­tute, Dis­abled, and Mad of Jew­ish East­ern Europe, 1800 – 1939
Natan M. Meir
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