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    Race & Ethnicity

    Interview

    ‘Preach­i­ness Doesn’t Make for Good Fic­tion’: Dana Czap­nik and Sam Gra­ham-Felsen in Conversation

    Two debut authors dis­cuss their com­ing-of-age nov­els set in the grit­ty New York and Boston of the nineties.

    Sam Gra­ham-Felsen, Dana Czap­nik
    April 30, 2019
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    The Soul of Judaism: Jews of African Descent in America
    Bruce D. Haynes
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Length of a String
    Elis­sa Brent Weissman
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    Chil­dren’s
    Back­field Boys: A Foot­ball Mys­tery in Black and White
    John Feinstein
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    Fic­tion
    Jew­boy of the South
    Don Koplen
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    Fic­tion
    Lit­tle & Lion
    Brandy Col­bert
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    Fic­tion
    Green: A Novel
    Sam Gra­ham-Felsen
    Cover of Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s
    Non­fic­tion
    Black Pow­er, Jew­ish Pol­i­tics: Rein­vent­ing the Alliance in the 1960s
    Marc Dollinger
    Essay

    Rein­vent­ing the Black-Jew­ish Alliance of the 1960s

    Marc Dollinger
    February 26, 2018
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    Chil­dren’s
    Arm­strong & Charlie
    Steven B. Frank
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    Hitler’s Amer­i­can Mod­el: The Unit­ed States and the Mak­ing of Nazi Race Law
    James Q. Whitman
    Essay

    30 Days 30 Authors: Pamela Ehrenberg

    Pamela Ehren­berg
    November 14, 2017
    Essay

    How Does the ​“Jus­tice Sys­tem” Work for You?

    Julia Dahl is the author of the Rebekah Roberts nov­els, the lat­est of which, Con­vic­tion, comes out this week. Julia is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week…
    Julia Dahl
    March 27, 2017
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    Fic­tion
    Wak­ing Lions
    Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen
    Essay

    A Jew­Asian July 4th

    Ear­li­er this week, Helen Kiy­ong Kim and Noah Leav­itt deter­mined the three take­aways on rais­ing Jew­ish-Asian fam­i­lies worth shar­ing from their research for their…
    Helen Kiy­ong Kim, Noah Leav­itt
    July 22, 2016
    Essay

    Three Take­aways from Inter­view­ing 110 ​“Jew­Asian” Cou­ples and Kids

    Helen Kiy­ong Kim and Noah Samuel Leav­itt are the coau­thors of Jew­Asian: Race, Reli­gion, and Iden­ti­ty for America’s Newest Jews. With the release of their book ear­li­er…
    Helen Kiy­ong Kim, Noah Leav­itt
    July 18, 2016
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