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    Excerpt: My Father’s Drawing

    Mindy Weisel
    August 23, 2021
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    Irma Stern and the Racial Para­dox of South African Mod­ern Art: Audac­i­ties of Color
    LaN­i­tra M. Berger
    Essay

    Sholom Ale­ichem’s Long-Lost Novel

    Curt Leviant
    August 23, 2021
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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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    The Vix­en
    Francine Prose
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    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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    End­pa­pers: A Fam­i­ly Sto­ry of Books, War, Escape, and Home
    Alexan­der Wolff
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    Hill of Beans: A Nov­el of War and Celluloid
    Leslie Epstein
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