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Arts & Culture

Essay

Sholom Ale­ichem’s Long-Lost Novel

Curt Leviant
August 23, 2021
Excerpt

Excerpt: My Father’s Drawing

Mindy Weisel
August 23, 2021
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Non­fic­tion
Irma Stern and the Racial Para­dox of South African Mod­ern Art: Audac­i­ties of Color
LaN­i­tra M. Berger
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DIJ — Do It Jew­ish: Use Your Jew­ish Creativity!
Barbara Bietz, Daria Grinevich (Illustrator)
Essay

Cul­ture of Fra­grance: Jew­ish Per­fumers in the Twen­ti­eth Century

Tim­o­thy Schaffert
July 26, 2021
Interview

‘Exiled in Par­adise’: A Con­ver­sa­tion between Alex­is Lan­dau and Don­na Rifkind

Alex­is Landau, Don­na Rifkind
July 21, 2021
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Kvetch­ers in the Rye

Ken Krim­stein
July 19, 2021
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Chil­dren’s
The Singer and the Scientist
Lisa Rose, Isabel Muñoz (Illustrator)
Interview

‘A More Per­son­al Slice of Sci­ence Fiction/​Fan­ta­sy’: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Lavie Tid­har and Sil­via Moreno-Garcia

Lavie Tid­har, Sil­via Moreno-Garcia
July 19, 2021
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Poet­ry
This Crazy Devotion
Philip Ter­man
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Fic­tion
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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Fic­tion
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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