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    Items with the tag:

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    Poet­ry
    Crea­ture
    Michael Duma­n­is
    Essay

    Los­ing My Spanish

    Judy Bolton-Fas­man
    October 18, 2021
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    Poet­ry
    Her Birth and Lat­er Years: New and Col­lect­ed Poems, 1971 – 2021
    Ire­na Klepfisz
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Mur­der of Pro­fes­sor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vien­na Circle
    David Edmonds
    Essay

    Lost in Translation

    Esther Ami­ni
    December 23, 2020
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    Announc­ing the Natan Notable Books Spring 2020 Winner

    JBC Staff
    July 20, 2020
    Essay

    The Impos­si­ble Life of Beate Siro­ta Gordon

    Beate at Mills Col­lege, 1942

    Jeff Gottes­feld
    June 17, 2020
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    How Yid­dish Changed Amer­i­ca and How Amer­i­ca Changed Yiddish
    Ilan Sta­vans
    Josh Lam­bert
    Essay

    From Psalms to Milosz: My Jour­ney through Poetry

    Yonatan Berg
    February 10, 2020
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    Fic­tion
    Costale­gre
    Court­ney Maum
    Interview—From the Journal

    The Endurance of Yid­dish: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Ilan Sta­vans and Josh Lambert

    Ilan Sta­vans, Josh Lam­bert
    January 13, 2020
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    The Newish Jew­ish Ency­clo­pe­dia: From Abra­ham to Zabar’s and Every­thing in Between
    Stephanie But­nick
    Mark Oppen­heimer
    Liel Lei­bovitz
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    Chil­dren’s
    Signs in the Well
    Shoham Smith (auth.), Vali Mintzi (illus.)
    Cover of Hebrew Roots, Jewish Routes: A Tribal Language In A Global World
    Non­fic­tion
    Hebrew Roots, Jew­ish Routes: A Trib­al Lan­guage In A Glob­al World
    Jere­my Benstein
    Essay

    The So-Called Rules of Lan­guage, Lit­er­a­ture, and Baseball

    Richard Michel­son
    February 20, 2017
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    The Yid­dish His­to­ri­ans and the Strug­gle for a Jew­ish His­to­ry of the Holocaust
    Mark L. Smith
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