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Essay Jews of the Spanish Homeland: Finding My Sephardic Family in a 1929 Film Elizabeth Graver April 10, 2023
Nonfiction Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms Seth Stern
Nonfiction The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America Christopher C. Gorham
Recommended Reading Nine Jewish Writers Share Their Must-Read Books for Women’s History Month JBC Staff March 13, 2023
Children’s A Perfect Fit: How Lena “Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion Mara Rockliff; Juana Martinez-Neal, illus.
Essay The Blue Book: Reanimating Jewish New Orleans Through Fiction Kitty Zeldis February 20, 2023
Nonfiction The American Way: A True Story of Nazi Escape, Superman, and Marilyn Monroe Helene Stapinski Bonnie Siegler
Essay Fictionalizing the Lower East Side: Assimilation and Opportunity in the Jewish Immigrant Experience Daisy Alpert Florin February 13, 2023