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    Icon­ic Jew­ish Women: Fifty-Nine Inspir­ing, Coura­geous, Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Role Mod­els for Young Girls
    Aliza Lavie
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    You’ll Do: A His­to­ry of Mar­ry­ing for Rea­sons Oth­er Than Love
    Mar­cia A. Zug
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    Doña Gra­cia Saved Worlds
    Bon­ni Goldberg
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    The Jazzmen: How Duke Elling­ton, Louis Arm­strong and Count Basie Trans­formed America
    Lar­ry Tye
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    Ear­ly Detec­tion: Catch­ing Can­cer When It’s Curable
    Bruce Rat­ner
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    The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets
    Stefan Hertmans; David McKay, trans.
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    Por­ti­co: Cook­ing and Feast­ing in Rome’s Jew­ish Kitchen
    Leah Koenig
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    Excerpt— Por­ti­co: Cook­ing and Feast­ing in Rome’s Jew­ish Kitchen

    Leah Koenig
    August 28, 2023
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    The Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Jew­ish State You’ve Nev­er Heard Of

    Ali­na Adams
    August 28, 2023
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    The Watch­mak­er’s Daughter
    Lar­ry Loftis
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    Golem of the Low­er East Side

    Jerome Charyn
    August 21, 2023
    Essay

    Home­steading Jews

    Susan Lynn Meyer
    August 14, 2023
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    Jew­ish Sun­day Schools: Teach­ing Reli­gion in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry America
    Lau­ra Yares
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    The Post­card
    Anne Berest; Tina Kover, trans.
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    How to Become an Amer­i­can: A His­to­ry of Immi­gra­tion, Assim­i­la­tion, and Loneliness
    Daniel Wolff
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    Good­bye, East­ern Europe: An Inti­mate His­to­ry of a Divid­ed Land
    Jacob Mikanows­ki
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