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    Still Pic­tures: On Pho­tog­ra­phy and Memory
    Janet Mal­colm
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    JBC Staff
    March 13, 2023
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    The Dress­mak­ers of Prospect Heights
    Kit­ty Zeldis
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    The Amer­i­can Way: A True Sto­ry of Nazi Escape, Super­man, and Mar­i­lyn Monroe
    Helene Stap­in­s­ki
    Bon­nie Siegler
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    Fic­tion­al­iz­ing the Low­er East Side: Assim­i­la­tion and Oppor­tu­ni­ty in the Jew­ish Immi­grant Experience

    Daisy Alpert Florin
    February 13, 2023
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    Mis­ter Mar­vel: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Dan­ny Fin­geroth About Stan Lee and His Jew­ish Influences

    Roy Schwartz
    January 30, 2023
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    Excerpt: The 12th Commandment

    Daniel Tor­day
    January 16, 2023
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    Chil­dren’s
    Where You’ve Got to Be
    Car­o­line Gertler
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    A Bril­liant Com­mod­i­ty: Dia­monds and Jews in a Mod­ern Setting
    Saskia Coenen Snyder
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    Excerpt: The New Yorkers

    Sam Roberts
    December 19, 2022
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    Let Our Bod­ies Change the Subject
    Jared Harél
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    One-Legged Mon­goose: Secrets, Lega­cies, and Com­ing of Age in the 1950’s New York
    Marc J. Straus
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    Mon­ster Club
    Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel; Ronald Kurniawan, illus.
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    Penin­nah’s World: A Jew­ish Life in Stories 
    Caren Schnur Neile
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    Florine Stet­theimer: A Biography
    Bar­bara Bloemink
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    A Shoe Story
    Jane L. Rosen
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