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    Cover of Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late Ottoman Empire
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    Mod­ern Ladi­no Cul­ture: Press, Belles Let­tres, and The­ater in the Late Ottoman Empire
    Olga Borovaya
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    In the Begin­ning: A Short His­to­ry of the Hebrew Language
    Joel M. Hoffman
    Cover of Awake & Singing: Six Great American Jewish Plays
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    Awake & Singing: Six Great Amer­i­can Jew­ish Plays
    Ellen Schiff, ed.
    Cover of Synagogue Song: An Introduction To Concepts, Theories, and Customs
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    Syn­a­gogue Song: An Intro­duc­tion To Con­cepts, The­o­ries, and Customs
    Jonathan L. Friedman
    Cover of Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
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    Edouard Vuil­lard: A Painter and His Mus­es, 1890 – 1940
    Stephen Brown, with an essay by Richard R. Brettell
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    Jerome Rob­bins: His Life, His The­ater, His Dance
    Deborah Jowitt
    Cover of From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture
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    From the Low­er East Side to Hol­ly­wood: Jews in Amer­i­can Pop­u­lar Culture
    Paul Buhle
    Cover of Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
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    Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
    Gene Wilder
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    Broad­way: The Amer­i­can Musical
    Michael Kantor; Laurence Maslon
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    In Har­ness: Yid­dish Writ­ers’ Romance With Communism
    Gennady Estraikh
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    Gen­der and Jew­ish Dif­fer­ence From Paul to Shakespeare
    Lisa Lampert
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    Who We Are: On Being (And Not Being) a Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writer
    Derek Rubin, ed.
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    Stein­berg at the New Yorker
    Joel Smith
    Cover of Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture From Cahan to the Goldbergs
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    Haunt­ed in the New World: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Cul­ture From Cahan to the Goldbergs
    Donald Weber
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    The Jour­ney That Saved Curi­ous George: The True Wartime Escape of Mar­gret and H.A. Rey
    Louise Borden; Allan Drummond, illus.
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    Dream­er from the Vil­lage: The Sto­ry of Marc Chagall
    Michelle Markel; Emily Lisker, illus.
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