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    Zap! Bam! Swoosh! and So Much More: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jere­my Dauber about Amer­i­can Comics

    Saman­tha Baskind
    December 27, 2021
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    Charles Dell­heim
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    Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Sev­en-and-a-Half-Year Jour­ney through the Talmud
    Adam Kirsch
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    A Book Hap­pened Around Me: Writ­ing ​‘These Are the Devel­op­ments of the Human’

    Ethan Daniel Davidson
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    I Am Hava: A Song’s Sto­ry of Love, Hope and Joy
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    The Jew­ish Neigh­bors of ​‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’

    Ariel­la Carmell
    December 15, 2021
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    These are the Devel­op­ments of the Human
    Ethan Daniel Davidson
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    Com­ing to Terms with Amer­i­ca: Essays on Jew­ish His­to­ry, Reli­gion, and Culture
    Jonathan D. Sarna
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    On Trans­lat­ing Irène Némirovsky

    San­dra Smith
    November 29, 2021
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    Esther David
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    David Liss
    November 22, 2021
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