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    In the Com­pa­ny of Oth­ers: Dis­cussing Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life Through Theater

    Isa­iah Stavchansky
    July 7, 2025
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    Non­fic­tion
    Ben Hecht’s Jew­ish The­atre of Protest
    Gar­rett Eisler
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    Emi­nent Jews: Bern­stein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer
    David Den­by
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    Bar­bra Streisand: A Lit­tle Gold­en Book Biography
    Judy Katschke; Brenna Vaughan, illus.
    Cover of First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian
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    First Lady of Laughs: The For­got­ten Sto­ry of Jean Car­roll, Amer­i­ca’s First Jew­ish Woman Stand-Up Comedian 
    Grace Kessler Overbeke
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    Match­ing Minds with Sond­heim: The Puz­zles and Games of the Broad­way Legend
    Bar­ry Joseph
    Essay

    The­ater as Tzedakah

    Eddie Shapiro
    July 3, 2024
    Cover of That Voice: In Search of Ann Drummond-Grant, the Singer Who Shaped My Life
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    That Voice: In Search of Ann Drum­mond-Grant, the Singer Who Shaped My Life
    Mar­cia Menter
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    Shi­ra and Esther’s Dou­ble Dream Debut
    Anna E. Jordan
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    My Song and Dance Grandparents

    Alisha Fer­nan­dez Miranda
    December 4, 2023
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    Bernar­dine’s Shang­hai Salon: The Sto­ry of the Doyenne of Old China
    Susan Blum­berg-Kason
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    Fic­tion
    The Book of Izzy
    Ben Gon­shor
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    A Coat of Many Col­ors: Putting Jew­ish Char­ac­ters on Stage: Putting Jew­ish Char­ac­ters on Stage
    Roy Schreiber
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    The Buried Trea­sures of the Paper Brigade

    Meryl Frank
    June 26, 2023
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    Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a For­bid­den Book, and a Search for Life in the Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    Meryl Frank
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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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