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    Bridge of Words
    Esther Schor
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    The Pow­er of Jew­ish Music

    Nora Gold​’s lat­est book, The Dead Man, fol­lows the sto­ry of a com­pos­er of Jew­ish sacred music and a music ther­a­pist with an uncon­quer­able obses­sion. Nora is…
    Nora Gold
    May 2, 2016
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    “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Iden­ti­ty in Con­tem­po­rary Graph­ic Memoirs
    Tah­neer Oksman
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    Orches­tra of Exiles
    Josh Aronson and Denise George
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    The Lady with the Bor­zoi: Blanche Knopf, Lit­er­ary Tastemak­er Extraordinaire
    Laura Claridge
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    Visu­al Arts
    Kitaj Prints: A Cat­a­logue Raisonné
    Jennifer Ramkalawon
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    Sum­mer Haven: The Catskills, the Holo­caust and the Lit­er­ary Imagination
    Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown, eds.
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    Ben Shahn’s New Deal Murals: Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in the Amer­i­can Scene
    Diana L. Linden
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    The Bat­tle for the Books

    With the release of Stolen Words: The Nazi Plun­der of Jew­ish Books, author Rab­bi Mark Glick­man is guest blog­ging all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series here on The…
    Mark Glick­man
    February 1, 2016
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    Holo­caust Icons: Sym­bol­iz­ing the Shoah in His­to­ry and Memory
    Oren Baruch Stier
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    Grou­cho Marx: The Com­e­dy of Existence
    Lee Siegel
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    The Lit­er­a­ture of the Holocaust
    Alan Rosen
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    Roman Vish­ni­ac Rediscovered
    Maya Ben­ton
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    100 Years: Wis­dom From Famous Writ­ers on Every Year of Your Life
    Joshua Prager and Milton Glaswer
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    What I Learned About Woody

    David Evanier recent­ly authored an unof­fi­cial biog­ra­phy of Woody Allen, and will be shar­ing what he learned about the famed come­di­an and direc­tor all week as part of the…
    David Evanier
    November 30, 2015
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