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    Shy­lock­’s Venice: The Remark­able His­to­ry of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
    Har­ry Freedman
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    The­ater as Tzedakah

    Eddie Shapiro
    July 3, 2024
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    Amaz­ing Abe: How Abra­ham Cahan’s News­pa­per Gave a Voice to Jew­ish Immigrants
    Norman H. Finkelstein; Vesper Stamper, illus.
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    Demys­ti­fy­ing Anti­semitism with Stars and Sitcoms

    Jonathan Branf­man
    June 17, 2024
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    Heroes with Chutz­pah: 101 True Tales of Jew­ish Trail­blaz­ers, Change­mak­ers and Rebels
    Ker­ry Olitzky
    Deb­o­rah Bod­in Cohen
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    Har­ry and the High­wire: Houdini’s First Amaz­ing Act
    Julie Carpenter; Laura Catalán, illus.
    Essay—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

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    Joan Lee­gant
    June 3, 2024
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    New Israeli Hor­ror: Local Cin­e­ma, Glob­al Genre
    Olga Ger­shen­son
    Interview—From the Journal

    The Diary Beyond Anne Frank: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Nina Sie­gal and Yael van der Wouden 

    Bec­ca Kantor
    May 28, 2024
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    Omer Cal­en­dar of Bib­li­cal Women
    Jill Ham­mer
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    Post­war Sto­ries: How Books Made Judaism American
    Rachel Gor­dan
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    Recipes and Rem­i­nisc­ing: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Joan Nathan

    Maron L. Waxman
    April 25, 2024
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    A Seder with Babar the Elephant

    Emi­ly Schneider
    April 22, 2024
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    The Lost Van Gogh
    Jonathan Sant­lofer
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    Post­war Anti-Anti­semitism Nov­els and the Women Behind Them

    Rachel Gor­dan
    April 1, 2024
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    Write like a Man: Jew­ish Mas­culin­i­ty and the New York Intellectuals
    Ron­nie A. Grinberg
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