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    Type­writer Beach
    Meg Waite Clayton
    Cover of Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life As a Failed Child Star
    Non­fic­tion
    Cry for Me, Argenti­na: My Life As a Failed Child Star
    Tama­ra Yajia
    Cover of Chai Noon: Jews and the Cinematic Wild West
    Non­fic­tion
    Chai Noon: Jews and the Cin­e­mat­ic Wild West
    Jonathan L. Friedmann
    Cover of Go On Pretending
    Fic­tion
    Go On Pretending
    Ali­na Adams
    Essay

    Find­ing Sanc­tu­ary in India

    Alka Joshi
    April 14, 2025
    Cover of Ben Hecht's Jewish Theatre of Protest
    Non­fic­tion
    Ben Hecht’s Jew­ish The­atre of Protest
    Gar­rett Eisler
    Cover of  Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s: The Post-Holocaust Authors
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    Jew­ish Sci­ence Fic­tion and Fan­ta­sy of the 1960s and 70s: The Post-Holo­caust Authors
    Valerie Estelle Frankel
    Cover of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation
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    Louis B. May­er and Irv­ing Thal­berg: The Whole Equation
    Ken­neth Turan
    Cover of Barbra Streisand: A Little Golden Book Biography
    Chil­dren’s
    Bar­bra Streisand: A Lit­tle Gold­en Book Biography
    Judy Katschke; Brenna Vaughan, illus.
    Cover of Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer
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    Only in Amer­i­ca: Al Jol­son and The Jazz Singer
    Richard Bern­stein
    Cover of When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy
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    When Cae­sar Was King: How Sid Cae­sar Rein­vent­ed Amer­i­can Comedy
    David Mar­golick
    Fiction—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    We All Have to Com­fort Each Other

    Gila Green
    October 21, 2024
    Cover of First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian
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    First Lady of Laughs: The For­got­ten Sto­ry of Jean Car­roll, Amer­i­ca’s First Jew­ish Woman Stand-Up Comedian 
    Grace Kessler Overbeke
    Cover of Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film
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    Giant Love: Edna Fer­ber, Her Best-sell­ing Nov­el of Texas, and the Mak­ing of a Clas­sic Amer­i­can Film
    Julie Gilbert
    Book to Film
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    Mil­len­ni­al Jew­ish Stars: Nav­i­gat­ing Racial Anti­semitism, Mas­culin­i­ty, and White Supremacy
    Jonathan Branf­man
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