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    Cover of Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
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    Spring­field Con­fi­den­tial: Jokes, Secrets, and Out­right Lies from a Life­time Writ­ing for The Simpsons
    Mike Reiss
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    Sav­ing Mona Lisa: The Bat­tle to Pro­tect the Lou­vre and its Trea­sures from the Nazis
    Ger­ri Chanel
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    The World Needs Beau­ti­ful Things
    Leah Rachel Berkowitz; Daniele Fabbri, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Queen in Jerusalem
    Tami Shem-Tov and Rachella Sandbank; Avi Ofer, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    What the Night Sings
    Ves­per Stamper
    Essay

    In Music, Salvation

    Ves­per Stamper
    February 27, 2018
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    Cal­i­for­nia Dreamin’: Cass Elliot Before The Mamas & The Papas
    Pénélope Bagieu; Nanette McGuinness, trans.
    Essay

    Jew­ish Com­e­dy Bits, Songs, Shows, and Films Every­one Should Know

    Eri­ca S. Perl
    January 18, 2018
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    Moth­ers in the Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Imagination
    Jane L. Kanarek, Marjorie Lehman,‎ Simon J Bronner, eds.
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    Visu­al Arts
    The Carved Wood­en Torah Arks of East­ern Europe
    Bracha Yaniv
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    Visu­al Arts
    Pierre Chareau: Mod­ern Archi­tec­ture and Design
    Esther da Costa Meyer
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    Ances­tral Tales: Read­ing the Bucza­cz Sto­ries of S.Y. Agnon
    Alan Mintz
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    Visu­al Arts
    Rober­to Burle Marx: Brazil­ian Modernist
    Jens Hoffmann and Claudia Nahson
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    Movies and Midrash: Pop­u­lar Film and Jew­ish Reli­gious Conversation
    Wendy I. Zierler
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    The Torah of Music
    Joey Weisenberg
    Essay

    When is Jew­ish Art Avant-Garde?

    Ben Schachter
    December 14, 2017
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