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    Cover of Jewish Artists and the Bible in Twentieth-Century America
    Visu­al Arts
    Jew­ish Artists and the Bible in Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry America
    Saman­tha Baskind
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    The Wes Ander­son Collection
    Matt Zoller Seitz; Eric C. Anderson, illus.; Michael Chabon, intro.
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    Cin­e­ma Judaica: The War Years, 1939 – 1949
    Ken Sutak
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    Death of a Holy Land: Reflec­tions in Con­tem­po­rary Israeli Fiction
    Rose L. Levinson
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    The Late Starters Orchestra
    Ari L. Goldman
    Cover of The Formation of the Jewish Canon
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    The For­ma­tion of the Jew­ish Canon
    Timothy H. Lim
    Cover of Violins of Hope: Violins of the Holocaust—Instruments of Hope and Liberation in Mankind's Darkest Hour
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    Vio­lins of Hope: Vio­lins of the Holo­caust — Instru­ments of Hope and Lib­er­a­tion in Mankind’s Dark­est Hour
    James A. Grymes
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    How Far Would You Go For Your Passion?

    Lisa Barr is the author of the award-win­ning debut nov­el, Fugi­tive Col­ors (Arcade), a sus­pense­ful tale of an artist’s revenge on the ​“eve” of WWII. Today, she chimes…
    Lisa Barr
    March 27, 2014
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    A Bro­ken Hal­lelu­jah: Rock and Roll, Redemp­tion and the Life of Leonard Cohen
    Liel Lei­bovitz
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    Agnon’s Moon­struck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture
    Ilana Pardes
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    Unscrolled: 54 Writ­ers and Artists Wres­tle with the Torah
    Roger Bennett, ed.
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    Hot­house: The Art of Sur­vival and the Sur­vival of Art at America’s Most Cel­e­brat­ed Pub­lish­ing House, Far­rar, Straus & Giroux
    Boris Kachka
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    Mau­rice Sendak: A Cel­e­bra­tion of the Artist and His Work
    Justin G. Schiller, Dennis M.V. David, Leonard S. Marcus; Maurice Sendak, illus.
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    Woody on Rye: Jew­ish­ness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
    Vincent Brook & Marat Grinberg, eds.
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    Mix­ing Musics: Turk­ish Jew­ry and the Urban Land­scape of a Sacred Song
    Maureen Jackson
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    Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
    Claudia Roth Pierpont
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