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    First Dias­porist Man­i­festo: With 60 Illustrations
    R. B. Kitaj
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    The Syn­a­gogues of New York’s Low­er East Side: A Ret­ro­spec­tive and Con­tem­po­rary View, Sec­ond Edition
    Gerard R. Wolfe; Joseph Berger, fwd.
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    The Jew­ish Con­nec­tion to Art

    Alli­son Amend​’s most recent nov­el, A Near­ly Per­fect Copy, is now avail­able. Alli­son was a final­ist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture for…
    Alli­son Amend
    April 15, 2013
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    The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Sto­ry through Cinema
    Eric A. Goldman
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    The Dairy Restaurant
    Ben Katchor
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    Yip Har­burg: Leg­endary Lyri­cist and Human Rights Activist
    Harriet Hyman Alonso
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    A Ship With­out A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart
    Gary Marmorstein
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    Red Brick, Black Moun­tain, White Clay: Reflec­tions on Art, Fam­i­ly, and Survival
    Christopher Benfey
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    Why I Put a Map in The Bronf­man Haggadah

    Ear­li­er this week, artist Jan Aron­son wrote about how she became an illus­tra­tor and her illus­tra­tions for The Bronf­man Hag­gadah. She will be blog­ging here all week…
    Jan Aron­son
    March 8, 2013
    Essay

    How I Became an Illustrator

    Ear­li­er this week, artist Jan Aron­son wrote about her illus­tra­tions for The Bronf­man Hag­gadah. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
    Jan Aron­son
    March 6, 2013
    Essay

    A Depar­ture From the Tra­di­tion­al: The Bronf­man Haggadah

    Jan Aron­son is the illus­tra­tor of the The Bronf­man Hag­gadah pub­lished by Riz­zoli. Born in New Orleans, New York-based artist Jan Aron­son has had more than sev­en­ty solo…
    Jan Aron­son
    March 4, 2013
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    The Rarest Blue: The Remark­able Sto­ry of an Ancient Col­or Lost to His­to­ry and Rediscovered
    Baruch Sterman with Judy Taubes Sterman
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    The Posen Library of Jew­ish Cul­ture and Civ­i­liza­tion, Vol­ume 10: 1973 – 2005
    Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz, eds.
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    The Amer­i­can Sun & Wind Mov­ing Pic­ture Company
    Jay Neugeboren
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    Eat Some­thing: A Wise Sons Cook­book for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews
    Rachel Levin
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    Invent­ing the Mod­ern Yid­dish Stage: Essays in Dra­ma, Per­for­mance, and Show Business
    Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry, eds.
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