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Ghet­to Broth­er: War­rior to Peacemaker
Julian Voloj
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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was
Arlene Alda
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Cross­ing Broad­way: Wash­ing­ton Heights and the Promise of New York City
Robert W. Snyder
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Jew­ish New York: A His­to­ry and Guide to Neigh­bor­hoods, Syn­a­gogues, and Eateries
Paul M. Kaplan
Essay

Address­ing the Amer­i­can-Russ­ian-Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty Cri­sis, Cam­era in Hand

Ali­na Bli­u­mis received her BFA from the School of Visu­al Art in 1999 and a diplo­ma from the Advanced Course in Visu­al Arts in Fon­dazione Anto­nio Rat­ti, Como, Italy…
Ali­na Bliumis
May 11, 2015
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Chil­dren’s
All-of-a-Kind Fam­i­ly Uptown
Sydney Taylor; Mary Stevens, illus.
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Eat­ing Delancey: A Cel­e­bra­tion of Jew­ish Food
Aaron Rezny & Jordan Schaps
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We’ve Got the Moves: Jew­ish Mad­ness on Madi­son Avenue

Ear­li­er this week, Ker­ri P. Stein­berg wrote about the Jew­ish women in adver­tis­ing a in 1960s New York. She is the author of the recent­ly pub­lished book Jew­ish Mad…
Ker­ri P. Steinberg
January 29, 2015
Essay

Jew­ish Mad Women

Ker­ri P. Stein­berg is an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of art his­to­ry at Otis Col­lege of Art and Design in Los Ange­les. She is the author of the recent­ly pub­lished book Jew­ish…
Ker­ri P. Steinberg
January 26, 2015
Essay

A Guide for the Per­plexed Knish-o-phile

Ear­li­er this week, Lau­ra Sil­ver wrote about the knish as an instru­ment of social jus­tice. She is the author of the book Knish: In Search of the Jew­ish Soul Food and has…
Lau­ra Silver
January 22, 2015
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New York Noise: Rad­i­cal Jew­ish Music and the Down­town Scene
Tamar Barzel
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The Lost Syn­a­gogues of Brooklyn
Ellen Levitt
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The Lost Syn­a­gogues of Manhattan
Ellen Levitt
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The Lost Syn­a­gogues of the Bronx and Queens
Ellen Levitt
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Moth­er­less Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem
Essay

It’s the First Week of June. Do You Know Where Your Fam­i­ly His­to­ry Is?

Boris Fish­man immi­grat­ed from the USSR at nine. He stud­ied Russ­ian lit­er­a­ture at Prince­ton, was on staff at The New York­er, co-wrote the US Senate’s Hur­ri­cane…
Boris Fish­man
June 2, 2014
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