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    Items with the tag:

    jewish mother

    Cover of Rising
    Chil­dren’s
    Ris­ing
    Sidura Ludwig; Sophia Vincent Guy, illus.
    Cover of The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother
    Non­fic­tion
    The End is the Begin­ning: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of My Mother
    Jill Bialosky
    Cover of Frontier: A Memoir and a Ghost Story
    Non­fic­tion
    Fron­tier: A Mem­oir and a Ghost Story
    Eri­ca Stern
    Cover of Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation
    Fic­tion
    Unfin­ished Acts of Wild Creation
    Sarah Yahm
    Cover of Mrs. Lilienblum's Cloud Factory
    Fic­tion
    Mrs. Lilien­blum’s Cloud Factory
    Iddo Gefen; Daniel­la Zamir, trans.
    Cover of Like Mother, Like Mother
    Fic­tion
    Like Moth­er, Like Mother
    Susan Rieger
    Cover of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters: A Memoir in Essays
    Non­fic­tion
    Moth­ers and Oth­er Fic­tion­al Char­ac­ters: A Mem­oir in Essays
    Nicole Graev Lipson
    Essay

    Let­ters from My Mother

    Diane Mehta
    March 10, 2025
    Cover of Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
    Non­fic­tion
    Do Not Cry When I Die: A Holo­caust Mem­oir of a Moth­er and Daugh­ter’s Sur­vival In Jew­ish Ghet­tos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
    Renee Salt
    Kate Thomp­son
    Cover of Salt
    Fic­tion
    Salt
    Adriana Riva; Denise Kripper, trans.
    Interview

    Yishai Sarid’s Apoc­a­lyp­tic Imag­i­na­tion: A Conversation

    Ranen Omer-Sher­man
    November 25, 2024
    Poetry—Witnessing: Post Oct. 7

    A Prayer on this Rosh Hashanah

    Mol­ly Ritvo
    September 26, 2024
    Cover of Songs for the Brokenhearted: A Novel
    Fic­tion
    Songs for the Bro­ken­heart­ed: A Novel
    Ayelet Tsabari
    Essay

    “I Heard These Sto­ries Dif­fer­ent­ly”: Inter­view­ing Mira

    Rachelle Unre­ich
    July 1, 2024
    Essay

    ‘A Shared His­to­ry’: Return­ing to My Moth­er’s Roots

    Car­o­line Leavitt
    April 25, 2024
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    Recipes and Rem­i­nisc­ing: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Joan Nathan

    Maron L. Waxman
    April 25, 2024
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