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    Cover of Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
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    Bit­ter­sweet: How Sor­row and Long­ing Make Us Whole
    Susan Cain
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    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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    Illu­mi­na­tions: An Explo­ration of Haf­tarah through Art and History
    Laya Crust
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    Amer­i­can Waste­land: Sto­ries by Alexan­der Shalom Joseph
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    The Lit­tle Book of Zen: Say­ings, Para­bles, Med­i­ta­tions & Haiku
    David Schiller
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    Pow­ered by Grief: My Adven­tures as a Sci­en­tist, Artist, and Activist
    Bar­ton Rubenstein
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    A Snake, a Flood, a Hid­den Baby: Bible Sto­ries for Children
    Meir Shalev, Ilana Kurshan (Translator), Emanuele Luzzati (Illustrator)
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    What Kind of a Name is Osnos?

    Peter Osnos
    August 30, 2021
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    Irma Stern and the Racial Para­dox of South African Mod­ern Art: Audac­i­ties of Color
    LaN­i­tra M. Berger
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    Curt Leviant
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    Mindy Weisel
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    DIJ — Do It Jew­ish: Use Your Jew­ish Creativity!
    Barbara Bietz, Daria Grinevich (Illustrator)
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    Cul­ture of Fra­grance: Jew­ish Per­fumers in the Twen­ti­eth Century

    Tim­o­thy Schaffert
    July 26, 2021
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    ‘Exiled in Par­adise’: A Con­ver­sa­tion between Alex­is Lan­dau and Don­na Rifkind

    Alex­is Landau, Don­na Rifkind
    July 21, 2021
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