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    Cover of Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
    Non­fic­tion
    Becom­ing Ezra Jack Keats
    Vir­ginia McGee Butler
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    Fic­tion
    Feb­ru­ary 1933: The Win­ter of Literature
    Uwe Wittstock; Daniel Bowles, trans.
    Essay

    Elie Wiesel: Torch­bear­er for Holo­caust Survivors

    Joseph Berg­er
    May 28, 2023
    Essay

    The Jew Who Posed as a Nazi: A Writer Nav­i­gates Con­flict­ing Identities

    Roslyn Bern­stein
    April 27, 2023
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Diaries of Franz Kafka
    Franz Kafka; Ross Benjamin, trans.
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    Non­fic­tion
    End­less Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth 
    Keiron Pim
    Essay

    You Can’t Be a Jew(ish Poet) Alone: A Guide to Find­ing Community

    David Eben­bach
    April 10, 2023
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    Non­fic­tion
    Zel­da Pop­kin: The Life and Times of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Woman Writer
    Jere­my D. Popkin
    Essay

    Desanc­ti­fy­ing Kafka

    Ross Ben­jamin
    January 9, 2023
    Essay

    The Dif­fer­ences Between Us

    Arman­do Lucas Correa
    January 9, 2023
    Essay—From the Journal

    Fan­ny Gold­stein and the Gospel of the Jew­ish Book

    Sil­via P. Glick
    December 21, 2022
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    Onto Cen­ter Stage: The Bib­li­cal Woman
    Sara Reguer
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    Invent­ing William of Nor­wich: Thomas of Mon­mouth, Anti­semitism, and Lit­er­ary Cul­ture, 1150 – 1200
    Heather Blur­ton
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    Frankly Fem­i­nist and Paper Brigade: Edi­tors Susan Wei­d­man Schnei­der, Yona McDo­nough, Bec­ca Kan­tor, and Car­ol Kauf­man in Conversation

    JBC Staff
    November 22, 2022
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    The Object of Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture: A Mate­r­i­al History
    Bar­bara E. Mann
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    Poet­ry
    Dear Selec­tion Committee
    Melis­sa Studdard
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