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Essay The Art of Religious Tradition: The Backstory to The Myth of the Cultural Jew Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is the Raymond P. Niro Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law. Her newest book, The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in… Roberta Rosenthal Kwall March 16, 2015
Nonfiction The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
Essay Into The Stew Elisa Albert is the author of the novels After Birth and The Book of Dahlia, the short story collection How This Night is Different, and editor of the anthology Freud’s… Elisa Albert February 17, 2015
Nonfiction Graphic Details: Jewish Women’s Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews Sarah Lightman, ed.
Nonfiction Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience Kerri P. Steinberg
Essay Woody Guthrie’s Hanukkah Songs Rabbi Joshua Eli Plaut, PhD is the author of A Kosher Christmas: ’Tis the Season to Be Jewish (Rutgers University Press). Visit his web site and seasonal blog at… Rabbi Joshua Eli Plaut December 15, 2014
Essay Fiddler at Fifty by Edward ShapiroIt has been fifty years since Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway on Tuesday, September 22, 1964 at New York City’s Imperial Theater. To mark its… Edward Shapiro December 9, 2014
Nonfiction Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History Bryan Cheyette
Essay Bring on the Noise Earlier this week, Tamar Barzel wrote about defining radical Jewish music beyond klezmer. Her first book, New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene… Tamar Barzel December 4, 2014
Essay A Jewish Music Koan: What is the Sound of a Klezmer Band Not Playing? Tamar Barzel’s first book, New York Noise: Radical Jewish Music and the Downtown Scene (Indiana University Press, 2014, with a companion website with… Tamar Barzel December 2, 2014
Children’s Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History Lesa Cline-Ransome; James Ransome, illus.
Children’s Every Picture Tells a Story: Illustrated Torah Verses and Commentary for Every Age — Book Two: Shmos Chaim Natan Firszt
Children’s Every Picture Tells a Story: Illustrated Torah Verses and Commentary for Every Age, Volume One: Bereishis Chaim Natan Firszt
