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The Vix­en
Francine Prose
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Chil­dren’s
Adven­ture Girl: Dabi Digs in Israel
Janice Hechter
Poetry

Kosher salt (a love poem)

Leono­ra Tepper
July 7, 2021
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Mike Nichols: A Life
Mark Harris
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Hill of Beans: A Nov­el of War and Celluloid
Leslie Epstein
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End­pa­pers: A Fam­i­ly Sto­ry of Books, War, Escape, and Home
Alexan­der Wolff
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Chil­dren’s
Let Lib­er­ty Rise!: How America’s School­child­ren Helped Save the Stat­ue of Liberty
Chana Stiefel, Chuck Groenink (Illustrator)
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A Friend of the Soul

A.J. Sidran­sky
June 28, 2021
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Ashke­nazi Herbal­ism: Redis­cov­er­ing the Herbal Tra­di­tions of East­ern Euro­pean Jews
Deatra Cohen, Adam Siegel
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Ger­man Jerusalem: The Remark­able Life of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Neigh­bor­hood in the Holy City
Thomas Sparr, Stephen Brown (Translator)
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Mon­key Boy
Francisco Goldman
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Leonard Cohen, Untold Sto­ries: The Ear­ly Years
Michael Pos­ner
Essay

A Return to the Source: On Trans­lat­ing Tobie Nathan’s ​‘A Land Like You’

Joyce Zonana
June 14, 2021
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Non­fic­tion
The Jew­ish Body: A History
Robert Jütte, Elizabeth Bredeck (Translator)
Essay

Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Three Nov­els by E.L. Konigsburg

Emi­ly Schneider
June 7, 2021
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Gazoz: The Art of Mak­ing Mag­i­cal, Sea­son­al Sparkling Drinks
Adeena Suss­man
Ben­ny Briga
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