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    Essay

    Sifriy­at Pija­ma Grows Up

    by Gali­na VromenWhen you see a new­born and then watch her four years lat­er, climb­ing to the top of the jun­gle gym, you can’t believe it’s the same child. That’s the…
    Gali­na Vromen
    February 27, 2013
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    Top 25 Lit­er­ary Clas­sics About Israel

    Dur­ing the JFNA­GA this past Novem­ber, JBC shared a list of 25 famous lit­er­ary clas­sics in the areas of Judaism and Zion­ism with the Israel For­ev­er Foun­da­tion.…
    JBC Staff
    February 1, 2013
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    Cook­book
    Jerusalem: A Cookbook
    Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
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    From Stanis­la­wow to Beach Music

    Cliff Graubart is the author of The Curi­ous Vision of Sam­my Levitt and Oth­er Sto­ries (Mer­cer Uni­ver­si­ty Press, 2012). He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
    Cliff Graubart
    January 7, 2013
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    Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Impor­tant Lead­ers Shaped Its Destiny
    Den­nis Ross
    David Makovsky
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    Rachel’s Tomb: A Novel
    J. A. Bernstein
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    Heav­en on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and After­life of Socialism
    Joshua Muravchik
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    Pales­tine Posts: An Eye-Wit­ness Account of the Birth of Israel
    Daniel Chertoff
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    Poet­ry
    Frayed Light
    Yonatan Berg (auth.), Joanna Chen (trans.)
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    To Heal The World?: How the Jew­ish Left Cor­rupts Judaism and Endan­gers Israel
    Jonathan Neu­mann
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    Bit­ter Reck­on­ing: Israel Tries Holo­caust Sur­vivors as Nazi Collaborators
    Dan Porat
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    Inter­mis­sion: How Fer­vor, Frien­ships and Faith Took Me to the Sec­ond Act
    Mindie Bar­nett
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    Count to a Thousand
    Car­o­line Gold­berg Igra
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    The Siege of Tel Aviv
    Hesh Kestin
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    Reread­ing Israel: The Spir­it of the Matter
    Bonna Devora Haberman
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    Israel: A History
    Anita Shapira
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