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    Arts & Culture

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    Artists, Mus­es — Equals?

    Emma Cop­ley Eisenberg
    January 20, 2025
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    Chutz­pah Girls: 100 Tales of Dar­ing Jew­ish Women
    Julie Sil­ver­stein
    Tami Schloss­berg Pruwer
    Essay

    A Jew in the Street and a Man in Your Tent?: Rab­bini­cal Dress in Vien­na at the Fin de Siècle

    Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum
    January 6, 2025
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    Jews in Suits: Men’s Dress in Vien­na, 1890 – 1938
    Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum; Reina Lewis and Elizabeth Wilson, eds.
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    Jean Strouse
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    Irwin Keller
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    Car­ol Kaufman
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    Only in Amer­i­ca: Al Jol­son and The Jazz Singer
    Richard Bern­stein
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    Giant Love, Edna Fer­ber, and Her Jew­ish Convictions

    Julie Gilbert
    November 25, 2024
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    Por­trait of an Artist, a Fam­i­ly, and Dra­mat­ic Social Change: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jean Strouse

    Car­ol Kaufman
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    An Art­ful Alliance

    Jean Strouse
    November 18, 2024
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