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    Nev­er a Native
    Alice Shalvi
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    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
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    All the Answers: A Graph­ic Memoir
    Michael Kupperman
    Cover of Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
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    Inher­i­tance: A Mem­oir of Geneal­o­gy, Pater­ni­ty, and Love
    Dani Shapiro
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    Bucharest Diary: Roma­ni­a’s Jour­ney from Dark­ness to Light
    Alfred Moses
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    Open Your Hand: Teach­ing as a Jew, Teach­ing as an American
    Ilana M. Blumberg
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    Mind­ing the Store: A Big Sto­ry About a Small Business
    Julie Gaines Illustrated by Ben Lenovitz
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    God Is In the Crowd: Twen­ty-First Cen­tu­ry Judaism
    Tal Keinan
    Excerpt

    Read an Excerpt from Alice Shalvi’s Mem­oir ​‘Nev­er a Native’

    Alice Shalvi
    December 17, 2018
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    Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graph­ic Adaptation
    Anne Frank; Ari Folman, adapt.; David Polonsky, illus.
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    For Sin­gle Moth­ers Work­ing as Train Conductors
    Laura Esther Wolfson
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    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
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    Poet­ry
    Near­ing Nine­ty: And Oth­er Come­dies of Late Life
    Judith Viorst
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    With Lib­er­ty and Jus­tice: The Fifty Day Jour­ney from Egypt to Sinai
    Senator Joe Lieberman and Rabbi Ari D. Kahn
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    Immi­grant Girl, Rad­i­cal Woman: A Mem­oir from the Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth Century
    Matilda Rabinowitz; Robbin Légère Henderson, illus.
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