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    Hedy and Her Amaz­ing Invention
    Jan Wahl
    Mor­gana Wal­lace, illus.
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    Cook­book
    Ottolenghi Sim­ple: A Cookbook
    Yotam Ottolenghi
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    Alfred Stieglitz: Tak­ing Pic­tures, Mak­ing Painters
    Phyl­lis Rose
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    Poet­ry
    Aban­doned Poems
    Stan­ley Moss
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    Show Tri­al: Hol­ly­wood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist
    Thomas Doher­ty
    Cover of The Restless Hungarian: Modernism, Madness, and The American Dream
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    The Rest­less Hun­gar­i­an: Mod­ernism, Mad­ness, and The Amer­i­can Dream 
    Tom Wei­dlinger
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    The Life of Saul Bel­low: Love and Strife, 1965 – 2005
    Zachary Leader
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    Not Bad for Delancey Street: The Rise of Bil­ly Rose
    Mark Cohen
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    In the Begin­ning the Neigh­bor­hood Girls Read Philip Roth Drunk in Their Baths

    Alli­son Pitinii Davis
    February 11, 2019
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    When Paul Met Artie: The Sto­ry of Simon & Garfunkel
    G. Neri; David Litchfield, illus.
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    Women of Val­or: Ortho­dox Jew­ish Troll Fight­ers, Crime Writ­ers, and Rock Stars in Con­tem­po­rary Lit­er­a­ture and Culture
    Karen E. H. Skinazi
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    The Case of the Sexy Jew­ess: Dance, Gen­der and Jew­ish Joke-work in US Pop Culture
    Hannah Schwadron
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    Hedy Lamarr: An Incred­i­ble Life
    William Roy; Sylvain Dorange, illus.
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    The Man Who Lit Lady Lib­er­ty: The Extra­or­di­nary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis
    Richard Schwartz
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    Visu­al Arts
    Sara Berman’s Closet
    Maira Kalman, Alex Kalman
    Essay

    In World War II-Era North Car­oli­na, A Haven for Ger­man Jew­ish Artists and Academics

    Charles Dar­went
    November 6, 2018
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