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Fic­tion
Hex: A Novel
Rebec­ca Din­er­stein Knight
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Nice Try: Sto­ries of Best Inten­tions and Mixed Results
Josh Gondelman
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Pos­i­tive Judaism: For a Life­time of Well-Being and Happiness
Dar­ren Levine
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Excerpt: The Dairy Restaurant

Ben Katchor
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Chil­dren’s
Clarence’s Top­sy-Turvy Shabbat
Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod, Jennie Poh (illus.)
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Chas­ing Echoes
Dan Goldman, George Schall (illus.)
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‘The Secret Was Me’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Dani Shapiro and T Kira Madden

Bec­ca Kantor
January 28, 2020
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Cook­book
The Jew­ish Cookbook
Leah Koenig, Julia Turshen (fwd.)
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Res­cue the Sur­viv­ing Souls: The Great Jew­ish Refugee Cri­sis of the Sev­en­teenth Century
Adam Teller
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Seder
Adam Kammerling
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Time and Dif­fer­ence in Rab­binic Judaism
Sarit Kattan Gribetz
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Forg­ing Ties, Forg­ing Pass­ports: Migra­tion and the Mod­ern Sephar­di Diaspora
Devi Mays
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The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Mod­ern History
Dina Danon
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