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Arts & Culture

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All Shook Up: A Novel
Enid Lang­bert
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Louis B. May­er and Irv­ing Thal­berg: The Whole Equation
Ken­neth Turan
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74th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards Winners

JBC Staff
January 22, 2025
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A Flag of No Nation
Tom Haviv
Essay—From the Journal

Artists, Mus­es — Equals?

Emma Cop­ley Eisenberg
January 20, 2025
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Chil­dren’s
Chutz­pah Girls: 100 Tales of Dar­ing Jew­ish Women
Julie Sil­ver­stein
Tami Schloss­berg Pruwer
Essay

A Jew in the Street and a Man in Your Tent?: Rab­bini­cal Dress in Vien­na at the Fin de Siècle

Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum
January 6, 2025
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Jews in Suits: Men’s Dress in Vien­na, 1890 – 1938
Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum; Reina Lewis and Elizabeth Wilson, eds.
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Simona Zaret­sky
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Rafael Chaiken
December 20, 2024
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Fam­i­ly Romance: John Singer Sar­gent and the Wertheimers
Jean Strouse
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Simona Zaret­sky
December 16, 2024
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Bar­bra Streisand: A Lit­tle Gold­en Book Biography
Judy Katschke; Brenna Vaughan, illus.
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Shechi­nah at the Art Institute
Irwin Keller
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Points of Con­nec­tion: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Tali Rosen­blatt Cohen of THE FIVE BOOKS

Car­ol Kaufman
December 3, 2024
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Only in Amer­i­ca: Al Jol­son and The Jazz Singer
Richard Bern­stein
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