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    Cover of The Miriam Tradition: Teaching Embodied Torah
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    The Miri­am Tra­di­tion: Teach­ing Embod­ied Torah
    Cia Sautter
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    The Anato­my of Influ­ence: Lit­er­a­ture as a Way of Life
    Harold Bloom
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    Trau­mat­ic Vers­es: On Poet­ry in Ger­man from the Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, 1933 – 1945
    Andres Nader
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    The Uni­ver­si­ty of the Ghetto

    Glo­ria Spiel­man​‘s most recent book, Mar­cel Marceau: Mas­ter of Mime, is now avail­able. Mar­cel Marceau: Mas­ter of Mime won a sil­ver medal in the 2011…
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    October 31, 2011
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    The Woman Who Dared: A Biog­ra­phy of Amy Levy
    Christine Pullen
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    The Mem­o­ry of All That: George Gersh­win, Kay Swift and My Fam­i­ly’s Lega­cy of Infidelities
    Katharine Weber
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    Wait­ing: Select­ed Nonfiction
    Elizabeth Swados
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    Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
    Jeffrey Veidlinger
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    Visu­al Arts
    The Israel Muse­um, Jerusalem
    Israel Museum Curators
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    Franz Kaf­ka
    Sander L. Gilman
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    Modigliani: A Life
    Jeffrey Meyers
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    Music in the Holo­caust: Con­fronting Life in the Nazi Ghet­tos and Camps
    Shirli Gilbert
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    Sephardic Amer­i­can Voic­es: Two Hun­dred Years of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
    Diane Matza, ed.
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    The Schock­en Book of Mod­ern Sephardic Literature
    Ilan Stavans, ed. and intro.
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    Death of a Lan­guage: The His­to­ry of Judeo-Spanish
    Tracy K. Harris
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    Alias Man Ray
    Mason Klein
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