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    Essay

    Miri­am Libick­i’s Artis­tic Progression

    Miri­am Libic­ki is a com­ic book author and artist whose most recent col­lec­tion of graph­ic essays, Toward a Hot Jew, will be fea­tured in Jew­ish Book Council’s…
    Miri­am Libicki
    October 20, 2016
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    The Ghet­to Swinger
    Coco Shumann; John Howard, trans.
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    New Cat­e­gories and Hon­ors for the 66th Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards

    Cel­e­brat­ing its 66th year, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil is pleased to announce two new devel­op­ments for the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards. Start­ing this year, a new…
    JBC Staff
    August 18, 2016
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    The Cam­bridge Com­pan­ion to Jew­ish Music
    Joshua S. Walden, ed.
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    Adi­na: My Design Sketchbook
    Y. Nadel
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    Bar­bra Streisand: Redefin­ing Beau­ty, Fem­i­nin­i­ty, and Power
    Neal Gabler
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    Women Who Broke The Rules: Judy Blume: Are You There Read­er? It’s Me, Judy!
    Kathleen Krull; David Leonard, illus.
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    Shi­ra: My Design Sketchbook
    Y. Nadel
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    New York’s Yid­dish The­ater: From the Bow­ery to Broadway
    Edna Nachshon
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    The Man That Got Away: The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen
    Walter Rimler
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    God­fa­ther of the Music Busi­ness: Mor­ris Levy
    Richard Carlin
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    Anoth­er Lit­tle Piece of My Heart: My Life of Rock and Rev­o­lu­tion in the ​‘60s
    Richard Goldstein
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    Visu­al Arts
    Isaac Mizrahi
    Chee Pearlman and Ulrich Lehmann
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    Search­ing for John Hughes
    Jason Dia­mond
    Essay

    The Cre­ative Process and the Jew­ish Arts

    Ear­li­er this week, Nora Gold shared her dis­cov­ery of Jew­ish music and its influ­ence on her lat­est nov­el, The Dead Man. Nora is blog­ging here all week as part of the…
    Nora Gold
    May 4, 2016
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    Ina’s Kitchen
    Ina Pinkney
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