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    diaspora

    Cover of Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora
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    Embrac­ing Exile: The Case for Jew­ish Diaspora
    David Krae­mer
    Cover of Entwined Homelands, Empowered Diasporas: Hispanic Moroccan Jews and Their Globalizing Community
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    Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Community
    Avi­ad Moreno
    Essay

    Exile as the Human Con­di­tion: Offer­ing a Wel­com­ing Hand

    David Krae­mer
    June 23, 2025
    Interview

    The Mag­ic of Our Cul­ture: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Cas­san­dra Clare

    Simona Zaret­sky
    March 3, 2025
    Essay

    The Mak­ing of Dias­po­ra in the Ancient World

    Mal­ka Z. Simkovich
    December 30, 2024
    Cover of The Diario: The Daring Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to America During World War I
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    The Diario: The Dar­ing Escape of Two Sephardic Jews from Turkey to Amer­i­ca Dur­ing World War I
    Alfred Ascher; Gloria J. Ascher, trans.
    Cover of Letters from Home: The Creation of Diaspora in Jewish Antiquity
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    Let­ters from Home: The Cre­ation of Dias­po­ra in Jew­ish Antiquity
    Mal­ka Z. Simkovich
    Cover of Bad Jew: A Family's Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu's Israel
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    Bad Jew: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest from the Min­sk Ghet­to to Netanyahu’s Israel
    Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
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    Tablets Shat­tered: The End of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Cen­tu­ry and the Future of Jew­ish Life
    Joshua Leifer
    Cover of One for Each Night: The Greatest Chanukah Stories of All Time
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    One for Each Night: The Great­est Chanukah Sto­ries of All Time
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    When There Was Light
    Car­lie Hoffman
    Cover of The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (Political Imagination)
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    The Neces­si­ty of Exile: Essays from a Dis­tance (Polit­i­cal Imagination)
    Shaul Magid
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    Who Are the Jews―And Who Can We Become?
    Don­niel Hartman
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    The Mov­ing-Box Sukkah
    Leah Rachel Berkowitz; Sharon Vargo, illus.
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