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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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    Hyla Shifra Bolsta
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    The Days of Awe
    Hugh Nissenson
    Cover of The Five: A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa
    Fic­tion
    The Five: A Nov­el of Jew­ish Life in Turn-of-the-Cen­tu­ry Odessa
    Vladimir Jabotinsky; Michael R. Katz, trans.
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    A Good Place for the Night
    Savyon Liebrecht; Son­dra Sil­ver­ston, trans.
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    Non­fic­tion
    Dai­ly Life of the Jews in the Mid­dle Ages
    Norman Roth
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Nat­ur­al His­to­ry of the Bible: An Envi­ron­men­tal Explo­ration of the Hebrew Scriptures
    Daniel Hillel
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    The Book of Telling: Trac­ing the Secret of My Father’s Lives
    Sharona Muir
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    The Koren Ethiopi­an Hag­ga­da: Jour­ney to Freedom
    Menachem Waldman, ed.; Binyamin Shalom, trans.
    Cover of The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews
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    The Wicked Son: Anti-Semi­tism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews
    David Mamet
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    Lion’s Hon­ey: The Myth of Samson
    David Grossman; Stuart Schoffman, trans.
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    Rethink­ing Syn­a­gogues: A New Vocab­u­lary for Con­gre­ga­tion­al Life
    Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
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    Lev­ana Kirschenbaum
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    Explain­ing Life: The Wis­dom of Mod­ern Jew­ish Poet­ry, 1960 – 2010
    Eleanor Ehrenkranz
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    Mordechai Bar-On
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    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…
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    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…
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