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    Arts & Culture

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    Illu­mi­na­tion: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Mark Podwal

    Ada Brun­stein
    January 25, 2021
    Essay—Poetry

    Spec­u­la­tive Chess­board of Erot­ic Space-Travel 

    Jake Marmer
    January 22, 2021
    Essay

    “Can you for­give some­one who does­n’t apol­o­gize?”: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Susan Shapiro

    Emi­ly Stone
    January 19, 2021
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Abba Tree
    Devora Busheri, Gal Shkedi (illus.)
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    Write What You Know: How My Sovi­et Jew­ish Immi­grant Expe­ri­ence Final­ly Became a Book

    Ali­na Adams
    January 12, 2021
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    Non­fic­tion
    Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Studies
    Simon J. Bronner
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    Torah in a Time of Plague: His­tor­i­cal and Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Responses
    Erin Leib Smokler (Editor)
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    Poet­ry
    City of Skypapers
    Marcela Sulak
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    It Could Lead to Danc­ing: Mixed-Sex Danc­ing and Jew­ish Modernity
    Sonia Gollance
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    Diary of a Lone­ly Girl, or The Bat­tle against Free Love
    Miriam Karpilove, Jessica Kirzane (trans.), Deborah Manion (ed.)
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    The Real­ist

    Basia Wino­grad
    January 11, 2021
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    The Tale of a Niggun
    Elie Wiesel; Mark Podwal, illus.
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    Karen Rostoker-Gruber, Kristina Swarner (illus.)
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    What to Miss When
    Leigh Stein
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