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    Ger­shom Scholem’s Youth­ful Zionism

    George Prochnik is the author of The Impos­si­ble Exile: Ste­fan Zweig at the End of the World, a 2014 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award win­ner. With the release of his new…
    George Prochnik
    March 20, 2017
    Essay

    The Poet of Thomp­son Street

    Joseph Helm­re­ich
    March 15, 2017
    Essay

    Writ­ing What You Know — Or What You Don’t

    Joseph Helm­re­ich is the author of The Return, a sci­ence fic­tion nov­el about a van­ished astro­physi­cist who reap­pears six years lat­er and inspires a cult…
    Joseph Helm­re­ich
    March 13, 2017
    Essay

    How to Tell Good Chris­t­ian Ladies the Bible Is Weird

    Jacob Bacharach
    March 13, 2017
    Essay

    What My Nazi Great-Grand­fa­ther Taught Me About the Oblig­a­tion to Act

    Ursu­la Werner
    March 6, 2017
    Essay

    It’s Always the Writer Who Com­mits the Crime

    Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen
    March 2, 2017
    Essay

    Chap­ter One, Revisited

    Geor­gia Hunter
    February 15, 2017
    Essay

    Hid­den in a Stash of Old Let­ters, a Grand­fa­ther I Nev­er Knew

    Geor­gia Hunter
    February 13, 2017
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    Non­fic­tion
    Always a Brides­maid (for Hire)
    Jen Glantz
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    My Jew­ish Year: 18 Hol­i­days, One Won­der­ing Jew
    Abi­gail Pogrebin
    Essay

    Ernes­tine Rose, Juden­schmerz, and Me

    Bon­nie S. Anderson
    January 27, 2017
    Essay

    How Jew­ish Was Ernes­tine Rose?

    Bon­nie S. Anderson
    January 25, 2017
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    Nec­es­sary Mourning
    Dahlia Abraham-Klein
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    Non­fic­tion
    Walk­ing Since Daybreak
    Modris Eksteins
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    The Girls of Usually
    Lori Horvitz
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    Maman
    Moris K. Niknam
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