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    Arts & Culture

    Essay

    ‘Hide the Jew’: Hol­ly­wood, Assim­i­la­tion, and the Mankiewicz Brothers

    Nick Davis
    October 11, 2021
    Poetry

    Nar­ra­tive Paint­ing #38

    Babo Kamel
    October 4, 2021
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    Excerpt: BAM…and Then it HIT Me

    Karen Brooks Hopkins
    September 27, 2021
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    Visu­al Arts
    A Col­lage of Customs
    Mark Pod­w­al
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    Poet­ry
    The Nao­mi Letters
    Rachel Mennies
    Cover of The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
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    The House of Frag­ile Things: Jew­ish Art Col­lec­tors and the Fall of France
    James McAuley
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    The Jew­ish Writer Behind Mozart’s Operas

    Howard Jay Smith
    September 21, 2021
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    ‘The Post Office’: A Play from India to Wartime Poland

    Jai Chakrabar­ti
    September 15, 2021
    Essay

    Paint­ing His­to­ry: Sto­ries of Jew­ish Art

    Charles Dell­heim
    September 13, 2021
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    Visu­al Arts
    The Flow­er­ing: The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Judy Chicago
    Judy Chicago
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    Jew­ish Super­heroes: Wil­low Zim­mer­man Joins the DC Universe

    E. Lock­hart
    September 6, 2021
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    Novy God Deer

    Linor Gora­lik, Dalia Wolf­son
    September 3, 2021
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    Fic­tion
    What Dis­ap­pears
    Bar­bara Quick
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    The Gospel of Well­ness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care
    Rina Raphael
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    Only Kid­ding!: My First Book of Jew­ish Jokes
    Sari Kopit­nikoff
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