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    Esther Nuss­baum

    Esther Nuss­baum, the head librar­i­an of Ramaz Upper School for 30 years, is now edu­ca­tion and spe­cial projects coor­di­na­tor of the Halachic Organ Donor Soci­ety. A past edi­tor of Jew­ish Book World, she con­tin­ues to review for this and oth­er publications.
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    Edouard Vuil­lard: A Painter and His Mus­es, 1890 – 1940
    Stephen Brown, with an essay by Richard R. Brettell
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    From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jew­ish Life in America
    Michael Grunberger, ed.
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    Visu­al Arts
    Jew­ish Art: A Mod­ern History
    Samantha Baskind and Larry Silver
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    Abstrac­tion and the Holocaust
    Mark Godfrey
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    Joshua Henkin
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    Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
    Janet Malcolm
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    Poet­ry
    Sec­ond Dias­porist Man­i­festo: A New Kind of Long Poem in 615 Free Verses
    R. B. Kitaj
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    The Sis­tine Secrets: Michelan­gelo’s For­bid­den Mes­sages in the Heart of the Vatican
    Benjamin Blech; Roy Doliner
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    Besa: Mus­lims Who Saved Jews in World War II
    Norman Gershman
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    Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin
    Lisa Thaler
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    The Sculp­ture of Louise Nevel­son: Con­struct­ing a Legend
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    Norman L. Kleeblatt, ed.
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    Ena Giurescu Heller, ed.
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    Arnold Daghani’s Mem­o­ries of Mikhailowka: The Illus­trat­ed Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor
    Deborah Schultz and Edward Timms, eds.

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