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Cover of Inventing Great Neck-Jewish Identity and the American Dream
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Invent­ing Great Neck-Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty and the Amer­i­can Dream
Judith S. Goldstein
Cover of Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot
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Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews and the 1991 Brook­lyn Riot
Edward S. Shapiro
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Chil­dren’s
All-of-a-Kind Fam­i­ly
Sydney Taylor
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Mitz­vah Girls: Bring­ing Up The Next Gen­er­a­tion of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
Ayala Fader
Cover of City of God: A Novel of Passion and Wonder in Old New York
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City of God: A Nov­el of Pas­sion and Won­der in Old New York
Beverly Swerling
Cover of Love is Like Park Avenue
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Love is Like Park Avenue
Alvin Levin; James Reidel, ed.
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After Etan: The Miss­ing Child Case That Held Amer­i­ca Captive
Lisa R. Cohen
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Feed Me Bubbe’s Jour­ney to New York City

Yes­ter­day, Avrom Honig shared a behind the scenes look at the pho­to­shoot for Feed Me Bubbe. He will be blog­ging all week for the Jew­ish Book…
Avrom Honig
September 7, 2011
Cover of 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
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97 Orchard: An Edi­ble His­to­ry of Five Immi­grant Fam­i­lies in One New York Tenement
Jane Ziegelman
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Lib­er­ty’s Voice: The Sto­ry of Emma Lazarus
Erica Silverman; Stacey Schuett, illus.
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Two Cents Plain: My Brook­lyn Boyhood
Mar­tin Lemelman
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Life on Sandpaper
Yoram Kaniuk; Anthony Berris, trans.
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Hel­lu­va Town: The Sto­ry of New York City Dur­ing World War II
Richard Goldstein
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Heart of the City: Nine Sto­ries of Love and Serendip­i­ty on the Streets of New York
Ariel Sabar
Essay

Con­tend­ing with Catastrophe

Post­ed by William SudryAs the tenth anniver­sary of the Sep­tem­ber 11th attacks approach­es, the scars left by that tragedy linger and con­tin­ue to remind. Amer­i­cans of…
William Sudry
August 10, 2011
Essay

Joshua Braff Vis­its 770

Ear­li­er this week, Joshua Braff blogged about chas­ing girls and falling in love at Jew­ish day school. He has been blog­ging all week for the…
Joshua Braff
July 16, 2010
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