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Chai Noon: Jews and the Cin­e­mat­ic Wild West
Jonathan L. Friedmann
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The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
Jacob Daniels
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The Jew­ish South: An Amer­i­can History
Shari Rabin
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‘Dwelling in the Messy Mid­dle’: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Marc Katz and Daniel Taub

Marc Katz
June 9, 2025
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Melt­ing Point: Fam­i­ly, Mem­o­ry, and the Search for a Promised Land
Rachel Cock­erell
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Chil­dren’s
Rem­brandt Choos­es a Queen
Deb­o­rah Bod­in Cohen
Ker­ry Olitzky
Cinzia Bat­tis­tel
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Amer­i­can Mac­cabee: Theodore Roo­sevelt and the Jews
Andrew Por­wanch­er
Essay

Assim­i­la­tion and Iden­ti­ty: Writ­ing ​‘The Palace at the End of the Sea’

Simon Tolkien
May 26, 2025
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Beyond Dis­pute: Redis­cov­er­ing the Jew­ish Art of Con­struc­tive Disagreement
Daniel Taub
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Jacque­line Friedland
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Miso­pho­nia
Dana Vow­inck­el; Adrian Nathan West, trans.
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An Amer­i­can Girl Anthol­o­gy: Find­ing Our­selves in the Pleas­ant Com­pa­ny Universe
KC Hysmith
Jus­tine Orlovsky-Schnitzler
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One One in Six Mil­lion: The Baby by the Road­side and the Man Who Retraced a Holo­caust Sur­vivor’s Lost Identity
Amy Fish
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Long­ing and Belong­ing: Jews in the Mod­ern Islam­ic World
Nan­cy E. Berg
Dina Danon
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Too Much Of Noth­ing: Notes on Fem­i­nism, Iden­ti­ty, and Womanhood
Car­la Stockton
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The Ele­phant and the Purim Crown
Haviva Kierzenblat; Rebeca Luciana, illus.
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