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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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Hag­gadah for the Fifth Child: A Fes­tive Dis­cus­sion on the Exo­dus and History
Donald B. Susswein
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A Passover Hag­gadah: Go Forth and Learn
Rabbi David Silber with Rachel Furst
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Our Hag­gadah: Unit­ing Tra­di­tions for Inter­faith Families
Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts
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The Con­scious Cook: Deli­cious Meat­less Recipes That Will Change the Way You Eat
Tal Ronnen
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The Base­ball Tal­mud: A Defin­i­tive Posi­tion-By-Posi­tion Rank­ing of Base­bal­l’s Cho­sen Players
Howard Megdal
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Judaism: A Way of Being
David Gelernter
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Blooms of Darkness
Aharon Appelfeld; Jeffrey M. Green, trans.
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The Ten Com­mand­ments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Mod­ern Life
David Hazony
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97 Orchard: An Edi­ble His­to­ry of Five Immi­grant Fam­i­lies in One New York Tenement
Jane Ziegelman
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Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
Robert Gottlieb
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Blows to the Head: How Box­ing Changed My Mind
Binnie Klein
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Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity
Shmuel Feiner; Anthony Berris, trans.
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Hank Green­berg: The Hero Who Did­n’t Want to Be One
Mark Kurlansky
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Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom
Steven Weitzman
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The Wash­ing­ton Hag­gadah: A Fif­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Man­u­script from the Library of Congress
Joel ben Simeon; David Stern, trans.

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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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