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    Chunky
    Yehu­di Mercado
    Essay

    Cul­ture of Fra­grance: Jew­ish Per­fumers in the Twen­ti­eth Century

    Tim­o­thy Schaffert
    July 26, 2021
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    Non­fic­tion
    Sur­vivors: Chil­dren’s Lives After the Holocaust
    Rebecca Clifford
    Jews and the Olympics
    From the Journal

    Kvetch­ers in the Rye

    Ken Krim­stein
    July 19, 2021
    Interview

    ‘A More Per­son­al Slice of Sci­ence Fiction/​Fan­ta­sy’: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Lavie Tid­har and Sil­via Moreno-Garcia

    Lavie Tid­har, Sil­via Moreno-Garcia
    July 19, 2021
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    I Am Here Now
    Barbara Bottner
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    Amer­i­can Baby: A Moth­er, a Child, and the Shad­ow His­to­ry of Adoption
    Gabrielle Glaser
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    Sutzkev­er: Essen­tial Prose
    Avrom Sutzkever, Zackary Sholem Berger (Translator)
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    Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
    Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
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    A Jew­ish Traitor

    Mau­rice Samuels
    July 12, 2021
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    Kosher salt (a love poem)

    Leono­ra Tepper
    July 7, 2021
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    A Boy Named Jew

    Yehu­di Mercado
    July 6, 2021
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    Mike Nichols: A Life
    Mark Harris
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    Brit­tany Ackerman
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    The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives: A Novel
    Tim Dar­cy Ellis
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