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    Ashkenazi Jewry

    Cover of The Fabergé Secret
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    The Fabergé Secret
    Charles Belfoure
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    Visu­al Arts
    The Carved Wood­en Torah Arks of East­ern Europe
    Bracha Yaniv
    Cover of A Remembrance of His Wonders: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Ashkenaz
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    A Remem­brance of His Won­ders: Nature and the Super­nat­ur­al in Medieval Ashkenaz
    David I. Shyovitz
    Essay

    Sephardim and Ashkenazim

    Sar­it Yishai-Levi
    April 6, 2016
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    Visu­al Arts
    Roman Vish­ni­ac Rediscovered
    Maya Ben­ton
    Cover of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance
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    Prac­tic­ing Piety in Medieval Ashke­naz: Men, Women, and Every­day Reli­gious Observance
    Elisheva Baumgarten
    Cover of Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times
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    Against the Grain: Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­als in Hard Times
    Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
    Cover of The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe
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    The Gold­en Age Shtetl: A New His­to­ry of Jew­ish Life in East Europe
    Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
    Cover of Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk to Marrakesh, More Than 100 Unforgettable Dishes Updated for Today's Kitchen
    Cook­book
    Jew­ish Soul Food: From Min­sk to Mar­rakesh, More Than 100 Unfor­get­table Dish­es Updat­ed for Today’s Kitchen
    Jan­na Gur
    Essay

    When You’re A Jet You Stay A Jet

    Ear­li­er this week, Kathy Ebel wrote about Nice Jew­ish Girl pro­tag­o­nists from New York City. Her first nov­el, Clau­dia Sil­ver to the Res­cue (Houghton Mif­flin…
    Kathy Ebel
    June 19, 2013
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    The Intel­lec­tu­al His­to­ry and Rab­binic Cul­ture of Medieval Ashkenaz
    Ephraim Kanarfogel
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    Dis­pos­able Man
    Michael Lev­itin
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    Where the Angels Lived: One Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Exile, Loss, and Return
    Mar­garet McMullan
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    The Rise of the Mod­ern Yid­dish Theater
    Alyssa Quint
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    The Nice Lit­tle Blonde Girl: A Lily Kovn­er Jew­ish Miss Marple Novel
    Lin­da Frank
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    Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
    Bracha Yaniv
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