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    Interview—From the Journal

    ‘She Doesn’t Want to Know the Secrets of This Place’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Sloane Crosley

    Bec­ca Kantor
    August 7, 2023
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    Non­fic­tion
    Amer­i­can Born: An Immi­grant’s Sto­ry, a Daugh­ter’s Memoir
    Rachel M. Brownstein
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    Chil­dren’s
    Madame Alexan­der: The Cre­ator of the Icon­ic Amer­i­can Doll
    Sarah Goldman Rubin; Sarah Dvojack, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    Bread Givers
    Anzia Yezierska
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    Poet­ry
    I.
    Ger­ald Stern
    Essay

    Fic­tion­al­iz­ing the Low­er East Side: Assim­i­la­tion and Oppor­tu­ni­ty in the Jew­ish Immi­grant Experience

    Daisy Alpert Florin
    February 13, 2023
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    Fic­tion
    My Last Inno­cent Year
    Daisy Alpert Florin
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    Chil­dren’s
    Mendel’s Hanukkah Mess-Up
    Chana Stiefel and Larry Stiefel; Daphna Awadish, illus.
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    Fic­tion
    Shay­na
    Miriam Ruth Black
    Interview

    ‘Hero Sto­ries’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with E. Lockhart

    Simona Zaret­sky
    October 4, 2021
    Essay

    Jew­ish Super­heroes: Wil­low Zim­mer­man Joins the DC Universe

    E. Lock­hart
    September 6, 2021
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    Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the Amer­i­can Dream 
    Michael Shnayerson
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    All I Could Nev­er Be
    Anzia Yezierska
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    Yeshi­va Days: Learn­ing on the Low­er East Side
    Jonathan Boyarin
    Essay

    Leav­ing the Low­er East Side

    Jonathan Boyarin
    October 5, 2020
    Essay

    Jew­ish Sci­ence Fiction

    Phil M. Cohen
    September 7, 2020
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