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Maron L. Waxman

Maron L. Wax­man, retired edi­to­r­i­al direc­tor, spe­cial projects, at the Amer­i­can Muse­um of Nat­ur­al His­to­ry, was also an edi­to­r­i­al direc­tor at Harper­Collins and Book-of-the-Month Club.

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At Oma’s Table: More than 100 Recipes and Remem­brances from a Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Kitchen
Doris Schechter
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Non­fic­tion
The Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Roots of Mod­ern Yid­dish 1903 – 1917
Barry Trachtenberg
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Visu­al Arts
Build­ing After Auschwitz: Jew­ish Archi­tec­ture and the Mem­o­ry of the Holocaust
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
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Non­fic­tion
Feed Me Bubbe
Avrom Honig and Bubbe
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Fic­tion
Sonata for Miriam
Linda Olsson
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Bad Faith: A For­got­ten His­to­ry of Fam­i­ly, Father­land, and Vichy France
Carmen Callil
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Non­fic­tion
Churchill and the Jews: A Life­long Friendship
Martin Gilbert
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Non­fic­tion
Postal Indis­cre­tions: The Cor­re­spon­dence of Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Drewnowski, ed; Alicia Nitecki, trans.
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Fic­tion
Ordi­nary Jews
Yehoshue Perle; Shirley Kumove, trans.
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Marc Cha­gall
Jonathan Wilson
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Res­ur­rect­ing Hebrew
Ilan Sta­vans
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Bar­ney Ross
Douglas Century
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The Jew­ish Body
Melvin Konner
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The Sephardic Fron­tier: The Recon­quista and the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty in Medieval Iberia
Jonathan Ray
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Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
Steven Bach

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Interview

Recipes and Rem­i­nisc­ing: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Joan Nathan

Maron L. Waxman
April 25, 2024
Essay

Passover 5780/2020 Hag­gadah Roundup

Maron L. Waxman
March 30, 2020
Essay

Ita­mar Rabi­novich: A Pro­file of the Author of a New Rabin Biography

Maron L. Waxman
July 10, 2017
Interview

Inter­view: Dina Gold

with Maron L. WaxmanAmid its account of the legal bat­tle to recov­er own­er­ship — or at least the recog­ni­tion of own­er­ship — of the build­ing at Krausen­strasse…
Maron L. Waxman
March 22, 2016
Essay

New Ves­sel Press: Great Books in New Vessels

by Maron L. WaxmanShort­ly after the launch of their first list, I talked with Michael Wise and Ross Ufberg about their new pub­lish­ing company…New Ves­sel Press, Michael…
Maron L. Waxman
October 15, 2013
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Jew­ish Book World Review: To the End of the Land

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterIn hon­or of David Gross­man mak­ing Amazon’s top ten this year, and with the win­ter issue going in the mail next, we thought we’d offer…
Maron L. Waxman
November 5, 2010

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