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Arts & Culture

Essay

Dance as Cul­tur­al Exchange: Martha Gra­ham’s Legacy

Vic­to­ria Phillips
August 24, 2020
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Cook­book
Back­yard Kitchen: The Main Course
Sari­na Roffe
Poetry

Esther’s Angels

Wendy Dick­stein
August 24, 2020
Essay

How I Dis­cov­ered Kérylos

Adrien Goetz
August 17, 2020
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Poet­ry
The Full Pome­gran­ate: Poems of Avrom Sutzkever
Avrom Sutzkeverk, Richard J. Fein (trans.), Justin Cammy (intro.)  
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Chil­dren’s
A Sweet Meet­ing on Mimouna Night
Allison Ofanansky, Rotem Teplow (illus.)
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Non­fic­tion
Lot Six
David Adj­mi
Interview—From the Journal

‘A Might-Have-Been Uni­verse’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with André Aciman

Rus­sell Janzen
August 4, 2020
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Non­fic­tion
A Child of the Century
Ben Hecht
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Non­fic­tion
Dig­ging Up Armaged­don: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon
Eric H. Cline
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Excerpt: A Mor­tu­ary of Books

Elis­a­beth Gallas, Alex Skin­ner
July 29, 2020
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The Art of the Jew­ish Fam­i­ly: A His­to­ry of Women in Ear­ly New York in Five Objects
Lau­ra Arnold Leibman
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Visu­al Arts
Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime
Max Hirshfeld, with essays by Michael Berenbaum and Stuart E. Eizenstat
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Announc­ing the Natan Notable Books Spring 2020 Winner

JBC Staff
July 20, 2020
Interview

JBC Authors at the Table: David Adjmi

David Adj­mi, JBC Staff
July 7, 2020
Essay—From the Journal

Jews, Mon­ey, and Literature

Ezra Glin­ter
July 7, 2020
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