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    Items with the tag:

    alternate history

    Essay

    A Return to the Source: On Trans­lat­ing Tobie Nathan’s ​‘A Land Like You’

    Joyce Zonana
    June 14, 2021
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Jew­ish Body: A History
    Robert Jütte, Elizabeth Bredeck (Translator)
    Poetry

    Ak-mechet

    David Osachy
    June 7, 2021
    Excerpt

    Excerpt: In Dreams Together

    Leslie Fazekas
    April 19, 2021
    Essay

    Heal­ers of the Pale: A Hid­den Herbal Legacy

    Deatra Cohen
    April 5, 2021
    Essay—From the Journal

    The Silent Toil­ers Are No Longer Silent

    Alex­is Landau
    March 15, 2021
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    Fic­tion
    The Order
    Daniel Sil­va
    Cover of The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
    Non­fic­tion
    The Beau­ty and the Ter­ror: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of the Ital­ian Renaissance
    Cather­ine Fletcher
    Essay

    Renais­sance Revealed: The Oppres­sion of Jews in Italy in the 1500s

    Cather­ine Fletcher
    September 14, 2020
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    Fic­tion
    The Organs of Sense
    Adam Ehrlich Sachs
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    Non­fic­tion
    Dig­ging Up Armaged­don: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon
    Eric H. Cline
    Interview

    JBC Authors at the Table: Jan Eliasberg

    Jan Elias­berg
    June 16, 2020
    Essay—Excerpt

    The Sto­ry Behind the Sto­ry: A Trib­ute to Three Old Men

    Craig Darch
    May 28, 2020
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    Fic­tion
    Vil­la of Delirium
    Adrien Goetz; Natasha Lehrer, trans.
    Essay

    ‘The Obvi­ous Hero­ine’: Anna Solomon on the Book of Esther

    Anna Solomon
    May 4, 2020
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    Fic­tion
    The Con­vert
    Stefan Hertmans; David McKay, trans.
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