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Cover of The Red Balcony
Fic­tion
The Red Balcony
Jonathan Wil­son
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Non­fic­tion
Jerusalem Falls: Sev­en Cen­turies of War and Peace
John D. Hosler
Essay

The Hol­i­day of Sigd: ​‘How Much Pow­er Has the Spirit’

Shu­la Mola
November 15, 2022
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Fic­tion
A Death in Jerusalem
Jonathan Dun­sky
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Fic­tion
Café Shi­ra
David Ehrlich; Michael Swirsky, trans. 
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Fic­tion
The Dead­ly Scrolls: Book 1 in The Jerusalem Mysteries
Ellen Frankel
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Fic­tion
The Girl Who Count­ed Numbers
Roslyn Bern­stein
Cover of Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center
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Fig­ur­ing Jerusalem: Pol­i­tics and Poet­ics in the Sacred Center
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
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Under Jerusalem: The Buried His­to­ry of the World’s Most Con­test­ed City
Andrew Lawler
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Fic­tion
Rebel Daugh­ter
Lori Banov Kaufmann
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Fic­tion
At Night’s End
Nir Baram
Jes­si­ca Cohen
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Novy God Deer

Linor Gora­lik, Dalia Wolf­son
September 3, 2021
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Ger­man Jerusalem: The Remark­able Life of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Neigh­bor­hood in the Holy City
Thomas Sparr, Stephen Brown (Translator)
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Soosie: The Horse That Saved Shabbat
Tami Lehman-Wilzig, Menahem Halberstadt (illus.)
Essay

A Two-Thou­sand-Year-Old Love Sto­ry: The Inspi­ra­tion for Rebel Daughter

Lori Banov Kaufmann
February 8, 2021
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Nicanor’s Gate
Eric A. Kimmel, Alida Massari (illus.)
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