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Arts & Culture

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Excerpt: Bun­ga­low Colonies and Mahjong Summers

Annelise Heinz
May 3, 2021
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Fic­tion
Love Like Water, Love Like Fire
Mikhail Iossel
Interview

Set­ting Yid­dish Poet­ry to Music: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Alex Weiser

Miran­da Cooper
May 3, 2021
Essay

‘No Final­i­ty’: Stolen Art in the Nazi Regime

Jonathan Petropou­los
April 26, 2021
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Non­fic­tion
This Is Not My Memoir
André Gregory, Todd London
Interview

‘Philip Roth: The Biog­ra­phy’ — A Con­ver­sa­tion with Blake Bailey

Don­ald Weber
April 6, 2021
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Poet­ry
The Minor Virtues
Lynn Levin
Essay

When Some­body Dreams of a Bird: Avra­ham Chalfi 

Atar Hadari
April 5, 2021
Poetry

Meet Me at the Well

Jane Yolen
April 2, 2021
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Visu­al Arts
Meet­ing Place
Anat Propper Goldenberg
Essay

Over Time

Sarah Blake
March 25, 2021
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Chil­dren’s
Hid­ing Baby Moses
Judith L. Roth, Melanie Cataldo (illus.)
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For­giv­ing Stephen Red­mond: A Kurchenko & Gon­za­lvez Mys­tery — Book Two
A.J. Sidran­sky
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Chil­dren’s
Lenny and Benny
Naa­ma Benziman
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Visu­al Arts
Out of the Nar­rows: The Artists’ Hag­gadah — A Visu­al Midrash
Jewish Artists Collective Chicago
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Chil­dren’s
Soosie: The Horse That Saved Shabbat
Tami Lehman-Wilzig, Menahem Halberstadt (illus.)
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