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    Women's Studies

    Cover of All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir
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    All the Way to the Tigers: A Memoir
    Mary Mor­ris
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    The Genius of Women: From Over­looked to Chang­ing The World
    Jan­ice Kaplan
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    Calm Sea and Pros­per­ous Voy­age: Select­ed Stories
    Bette How­land

    ‘Sacred Sto­ries as Metaphor’: A Mod­ern Retelling of Bib­li­cal Stories

    Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
    August 19, 2019
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    Wel­come to Wher­ev­er We Are: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly, Care­giv­ing, and Redemption
    Deb­o­rah J. Cohan
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    Hol­ly­wood’s Eve 
    Lili Ano­lik
    Cover of America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
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    Amer­i­ca’s Jew­ish Women: A His­to­ry from Colo­nial Times to Today
    Pamela S. Nadell
    Essay

    Mar­i­lyn Sachs, For­got­ten Pio­neer in Chil­dren’s Literature 

    At a time when chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture was filled with pic­ture-per­fect fam­i­lies, Mar­i­lyn Sachs paint­ed a dark­er, rich­er reality.

    Emi­ly Schneider
    June 3, 2019
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    Chil­dren’s
    Hedy and Her Amaz­ing Invention
    Jan Wahl
    Mor­gana Wal­lace, illus.
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    Nev­er a Native
    Alice Shalvi
    Interview

    Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Alice Shalvi 

    JBC Staff
    March 4, 2019
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    The Woman Who Fought An Empire: Sarah Aaron­sohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
    Gre­go­ry Joseph Wallance
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    Women of Val­or: Ortho­dox Jew­ish Troll Fight­ers, Crime Writ­ers, and Rock Stars in Con­tem­po­rary Lit­er­a­ture and Culture
    Karen E. H. Skinazi
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    The Case of the Sexy Jew­ess: Dance, Gen­der and Jew­ish Joke-work in US Pop Culture
    Hannah Schwadron
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    Hedy Lamarr: An Incred­i­ble Life
    William Roy; Sylvain Dorange, illus.
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    Read an Excerpt from Alice Shalvi’s Mem­oir ​‘Nev­er a Native’

    Alice Shalvi
    December 17, 2018
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