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Book Cover of the Week: Pascin by Joann Sfar

Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJoann Sfar’s biography of the Jewish modernist painter Pascin (Julius Mordecai Pincas) will soon be available in the U.S. with…

Naomi Firestone-Teeter

September 25, 2013

Cover of Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

Elie Wiesel: Jewish, Literary, and Moral Perspectives

Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen, eds.

Cover of Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee

Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee

Noralee Frankel

Cover of The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild

The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild

Cover of The Smartest Woman I Know

The Smartest Woman I Know

Ilene Beckerman

Cover of Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis

Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis

Cover of A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch

Cover of The Forgotten Zionist: The Life of Solomon (Sioma) Yankelevitch Jacobi

The Forgotten Zionist: The Life of Solomon (Sioma) Yankelevitch Jacobi

Rodney Benjamin and David Cebon

Cover of Into the Light: The Healing Art of Kalman Aron

Into the Light: The Healing Art of Kalman Aron

Susan Beilby Magee

Cover of Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation’s History Through the Lives of its Foremost Leaders

Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation’s History Through the Lives of its Foremost Leaders

Jack L. Schwartzwald

Cover of Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue

Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue

Cover of Gertrud Kolmar: A Literary Life

Gertrud Kolmar: A Literary Life

Dieter Kuhn; Linda Marianiello, trans.

Cover of The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah”

The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah”

Cover of Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Saul Friedländer

Cover of Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech

Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech

Victoria Saker Woeste

Cover of The Red Man's Bones

The Red Man’s Bones