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    Ken Krim­stein
    July 19, 2021
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    The Singer and the Scientist
    Lisa Rose, Isabel Muñoz (Illustrator)
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    ‘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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    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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    Chana Stiefel, Chuck Groenink (Illustrator)
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    A Friend of the Soul

    A.J. Sidran­sky
    June 28, 2021
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    Ashke­nazi Herbal­ism: Redis­cov­er­ing the Herbal Tra­di­tions of East­ern Euro­pean Jews
    Deatra Cohen
    Adam Siegel
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    Ger­man Jerusalem: The Remark­able Life of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Neigh­bor­hood in the Holy City
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    A Return to the Source: On Trans­lat­ing Tobie Nathan’s ​‘A Land Like You’

    Joyce Zonana
    June 14, 2021
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    Francisco Goldman
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