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A Wom­an’s Voice: Books by Four Redis­cov­ered Authors

Ruth Andrew Ellenson
March 26, 2020
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Fic­tion
The Usu­al Uncer­tain­ties: Stories 
Jonathan Blum
Excerpt

Excerpt: Dig­ging Up Armageddon

Eric H. Cline
March 23, 2020
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Pos­i­tive Judaism: For a Life­time of Well-Being and Happiness
Dar­ren Levine
Recommended Reading

JBC Book­shelf: Clas­sics Rewind

Simona Zaret­sky
March 20, 2020
Essay

Insider/​Outsider: Writ­ing Fic­tion in Eng­lish in Israel

Miryam Sivan
March 19, 2020
News

Jew­ish Lit­er­ary Con­ver­sa­tions in Quar­an­tine: Live Coverage

JBC Staff
March 16, 2020
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Fic­tion
War­saw Stories
Hersh Dovid Nomberg, Daniel Kennedy (trans.)
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Excerpt — Bar­ry Son­nen­feld, Call Your Moth­er: Mem­oirs of a Neu­rot­ic Filmmaker

Bar­ry Sonnenfeld
March 10, 2020
Excerpt

Excerpt: Feed­ing Women of the Bible, Feed­ing Ourselves

Lainie Cadry
March 9, 2020
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Chil­dren’s
Par­rots, Pugs, and Pix­ie Dust: A Book About Fash­ion Design­er Judith Leiber
Deborah Blumenthal, Masha D’Yans (illus.)
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Chil­dren’s
A Per­sian Princess
Barbara Diamond Goldin, Steliyana Doneva (illus.)
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Chil­dren’s
The Life of a Coat
Kadya Molodowsky, Batia Kolton (illus.), Ilana Kurshan (trans.)
Poetry

Two Prayers

Daniel Tor­day
February 28, 2020
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Chil­dren’s
Who Will Ask the Four Questions
Naomi Ben-Gur, Carmel Ben-Ami (illus.), Gilah Kahn-Hoffmann (trans.)  
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The Sun and Her Stars: Sal­ka Vier­tel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Gold­en Age of Hollywood
Don­na Rifkind
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