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    Cover of Ghetto to Ghetto: Yiddish and Jive in Everyday Life
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    Ghet­to to Ghet­to: Yid­dish and Jive in Every­day Life
    Her­bert L. Foster
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    Windy City Blues
    Renée Rosen
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    Eyes of the World: Robert Capa, Ger­da Taro, and the Inven­tion of Mod­ern Photojournalism
    Marc Aron­son
    Mari­na Budhos
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    Bad Rab­bi And Oth­er Strange but True Sto­ries from the Yid­dish Press
    Eddy Port­noy
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    Up Your Game!
    Gary Bel­sky
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    The World Broke in Two
    Bill Gold­stein
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    The Exhi­bi­tion­ist: Liv­ing Muse­ums, Lov­ing Museums
    Karl Katz
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    The Man Who Car­ried Cash: Saul Holiff, John­ny Cash, and the Mak­ing of an Amer­i­can Icon
    Julie Chadwick
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    Hitler in Los Ange­les: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hol­ly­wood and America
    Steven J. Ross
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    A Picture’s Worth

    Haim Watz­man
    April 14, 2017
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    The Biog­ra­ph­er and the Architect

    Ear­li­er this week, Wendy Less­er wrote about Louis Kahn’s Jew­ish iden­ti­ty why she chose to write You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Wendy is guest blog­ging for the…
    Wendy Less­er
    March 24, 2017
    Essay

    How Jew­ish Was Louis Kahn?

    Ear­li­er this week, Wendy Less­er wrote about why she chose to write You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Wendy is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as…
    Wendy Less­er
    March 22, 2017
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    Why I Wrote ​‘You Say to Brick’

    Wendy Less­er
    March 20, 2017
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    You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
    Wendy Less­er
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    The Poet of Thomp­son Street

    Joseph Helm­re­ich
    March 15, 2017
    Essay

    Writ­ing What You Know — Or What You Don’t

    Joseph Helm­re­ich is the author of The Return, a sci­ence fic­tion nov­el about a van­ished astro­physi­cist who reap­pears six years lat­er and inspires a cult…
    Joseph Helm­re­ich
    March 13, 2017
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