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    The Lives of Isaac Stern
    David Schoen­baum
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    The New York Times: Right at Home: How to Buy Dec­o­rate Orga­nize and Main­tain Your Space
    Ron­da Kaysen
    Michelle Hig­gins
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    Atten­ton: A Love Story
    Casey Schwartz
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    Seek­ing Sanc­tu­ary: 125 Years of Syn­a­gogues on Long Island
    Brad Kolod­ny
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    Mod­ern Man­hood: Con­ver­sa­tions About the Com­pli­cat­ed World of Being a Good Man Today
    Cleo Stiller
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    ‘Irrev­er­ence and Vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty’: Nora Ephron’s Beginnings

    Renée Rosen
    August 26, 2019
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    A Hun­dred Acres of Amer­i­ca: The Geog­ra­phy of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary History
    Michael Hober­man
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    Poet­ry
    For­est with Castanets
    Diane Mehta
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    The Key from Spain: Flo­ry Jago­da and Her Music 
    Debbie Levy; Sonja Wimmer, illus.
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    Excerpt: The Book of Sarah

    Sarah Light­man
    August 19, 2019
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    Calm Sea and Pros­per­ous Voy­age: Select­ed Stories
    Bette How­land
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    Ariel Sam­son: Free­lance Rabbi
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    The Ital­ian­ist: An Inter­view with Ann Gold­stein on Trans­lat­ing Pri­mo Lev­i’s Work

    Mer­rill Leffler
    July 29, 2019
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    Who Wants to Be A Jew­ish Writer?: And Oth­er Essays
    Adam Kirsch
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    Joshua Furst
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