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Essay Doppelgänger: Or Aya and Me Ayelet Tsabari writes a “strange, unexpected postscript” to her essay “A Simple Girl,” excerpted in the 2019 issue of Paper Brigade. Ayelet Tsabari May 14, 2019
From the Journal A Simple Girl Growing up, Ayelet Tsabari grappled with Mizrahi stereotypes — and found inspiration in Ofra Haza, Israel’s iconic, Yemini singer. Ayelet Tsabari May 13, 2019
Nonfiction Minding the Store: A Big Story About a Small Business Julie Gaines Illustrated by Ben Lenovitz
Excerpt Read an Excerpt from Alice Shalvi’s Memoir ‘Never a Native’ Alice Shalvi December 17, 2018
Nonfiction Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation Anne Frank; Ari Folman, adapt.; David Polonsky, illus.
Nonfiction Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered: One Woman’s Year in the Heart of the Christian, Muslim, Armenian, and Jewish Quarters of Old Jerusalem Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Nonfiction With Liberty and Justice: The Fifty Day Journey from Egypt to Sinai Senator Joe Lieberman and Rabbi Ari D. Kahn
Nonfiction Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century Matilda Rabinowitz; Robbin Légère Henderson, illus.
