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Non­fic­tion
Secret Agent Man
Mar­got Singer
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When Bible Meets His­to­ry: Ancient Voic­es Tell Their Version
Stephen Lee Crane
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Ketubah Renais­sance: The Art­ful Mod­ern Revival of the Jew­ish Mar­riage Contract
Michael Shapiro
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The Broth­ers Isaacson
Jeff Lefkoff
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First the Patient: The Life and Times of David G. Nathan, MD
Bar­rett Rollins
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Fic­tion
Sha­la­ma: My 96 Sea­sons in China
Jean Hoff­mann Lewanda
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When Ein­stein Met Kaf­ka: Jew­ish Con­tri­bu­tions to the Mod­ern World
Diego Moldes; Steven Capsuto, trans
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Lake Burntshore
Aaron Kreuter
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The Posthu­mous Land­scape: Rem­nants of Jew­ish Life in East­ern Europe
David Kauf­man
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Gitel’s Free­dom
Iris Mitlin Lav
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Next Stop
Ben­jamin Resnick
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Bad Jew: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest from the Min­sk Ghet­to to Netanyahu’s Israel
Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
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Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties and a Dizzy­ing Freedom

Andrés Spokoiny
August 26, 2024
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The Klans­man­’s Son: My Jour­ney from White Nation­al­ism to Antiracism
Adri­anne Black
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Excerpt―Matrilineal Dis­sent: Women Writ­ers and Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary History

Annie Atu­ra Bushnell, Lori Har­ri­son-Kahan, Ash­ley Walters
August 12, 2024
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Tablets Shat­tered: The End of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Cen­tu­ry and the Future of Jew­ish Life
Joshua Leifer
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