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The Polypho­ny of Jew­ish Culture
Ben­jamin Harshav
Nonfiction
Klezmer Amer­i­ca: Jew­ish­ness, Eth­nic­i­ty, Modernity
Jonathan Freed­man
Nonfiction
The New Authen­tics: Artists of the Post-Jew­ish Generation
Staci Boris
Nonfiction
The Lit­er­ary Com­mu­ni­ty: Select­ed Essays 1967 – 2007
Ted Solotaroff; Rus­sell Banks, intro.
Nonfiction
Past Imper­fect: 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russ­ian Artist
Grisha Bruskin; Alice Nakhi­movsky , trans.
Nonfiction
Argu­ing The Mod­ern Jew­ish Canon: Essays on Lit­er­a­ture and Cul­ture in Hon­or of Ruth R. Wisse
Justin Cam­my, Dara Horn , Alyssa Quint, and Rachel Rubin­stein, eds.
Children's
Inside the Israel Muse­um: A Fam­i­ly Guide
Joy Richard­son
Nonfiction
Vision­ary Expres­sion­ism: A Zion­ist Art
Alan Kauf­man; Pol­ly Zavadi­vk­er , ed. and fwd.
Nonfiction
The Sis­tine Secrets: Michelan­gelo’s For­bid­den Mes­sages in the Heart of the Vatican
Ben­jamin Blech; Roy Doliner
Nonfiction
Jews and Shoes
Edna Nahshon
Visual Arts
Cha­gall and the Artists of the Russ­ian Jew­ish Theater
Susan Tumarkin Good­man, ed.
Nonfiction
Jew­ish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life, His­to­ry, Pol­i­tics, and Culture
Ruth Kark, Mar­galit Shi­lo, Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds,; Shu­lamit Rein­harz, fwd.
Nonfiction
Make ​‘em Laugh: The Fun­ny Busi­ness of America
Lau­rence Maslon and Michael Kantor
Nonfiction
Anglo-Jew­ish Women Writ­ing the Holo­caust: Dis­placed Witnesses
Phyl­lis Lassner
Nonfiction
Car­toons and Extrem­ism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and West­ern Media
Joel Kotek
Nonfiction
Yehu­da Amichai: The Mak­ing of Israel’s Nation­al Poet
Nili Scharf Gold
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Prince of the Press: How One Col­lec­tor Built His­to­ry’s Most Endur­ing and Remark­able Jew­ish Library
Joshua Teplit­sky
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Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin
Lisa Thaler
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Pri­mo Lev­i’s Uni­verse: A Writer’s Journey
Sam Mag­a­v­ern; Jonathan Rosen, fwd.; Risa Sodi, aftwd.
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Music for Silenced Voic­es: Shostakovich and His Fif­teen Quartets
Wendy Less­er
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