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Essay

Belong­ing: A Brief His­to­ry of Jews, Catholics, and Basketball

David Hol­lan­der
March 13, 2023
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Fic­tion
Those Sum­mer Nights
Lau­ra Silverman
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Fic­tion
Leav­ing East­ern Parkway
Matthew Daub
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Non­fic­tion
An Espe­cial­ly Good View: Watch­ing His­to­ry Happen
Peter Osnos
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Chil­dren’s
Bar­tal­i’s Bicy­cle: The True Sto­ry of Gino Bar­tali, Italy’s Secret Hero
Megan Hoyt, Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator)
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Non­fic­tion
By the Grace of the Game: The Holo­caust, a Bas­ket­ball Lega­cy, and an Unprece­dent­ed Amer­i­can Dream
Dan Grun­feld
Jews and the Olympics
Essay

The Joy of Miss­ing Out

Tra­cy Brown
March 1, 2021
Essay

The Untold Sto­ry of the Box­ers and Mob­sters who Defend­ed Amer­i­ca against Hitler’s Nazi Empire

Leslie K. Barry
February 10, 2021
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Chil­dren’s
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen!
Sarah Kapit
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Games of Decep­tion: The True Sto­ry of the First US Olympic Bas­ket­ball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
Andrew Maraniss
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The Cap­tain & Me: On and Off the Field with Thur­man Munson
Dan Epstein
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Tough Luck: Sid Luck­man, Mur­der, Inc., and the Rise of the Mod­ern NFL
R. D. Rosen
Essay

A Jew­ish-Pales­tin­ian Children’s Book: How Daniel and Ismail Came to Be

Ilan Sta­vans
August 12, 2019
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Pete Rose: An Amer­i­can Dilemma
Kostya Kennedy

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