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Items with the tag:

shtetl

Excerpt

Excerpt: Sons and Daughters

Chaim Grade, Rose Wald­man
March 24, 2025
Recommended Reading

The World of Chaim Grade: Books About Jew­ish Life in Pre-World War II East­ern Europe

Altie Karp­er
March 24, 2025
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Fic­tion
Lublin
Manya Wilkin­son
Cover of The Tears & Prayers of Fools
Fic­tion
The Tears & Prayers of Fools
Grigory Kanovich; Mary Ann Szporluk, trans.
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Chil­dren’s
Straw Bag, Tin Box, Cloth Suit­case: Three Immi­grant Voices
Jane Yolen, Marjorie Lotfi, and Raquel Elizabeth Artiga de Paz; Fotini Tikkou, illus.
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Fic­tion
When the Angels Left the Old Country 
Sacha Lamb
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Fic­tion
From a Dis­tant Relation
Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky; James Adam Redfield, ed. and trans.
Fiction

Land of Milk and Honey

Gina Pfef­fer-Mul­li­gan
July 11, 2022
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Fic­tion
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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Fic­tion
The Sweet Fra­grance of Life: & Oth­er Hor­ror Stories
Eliz­a­beth Schwartz
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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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The Slaugh­ter­man’s Daughter
Yaniv Iczkovits
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