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Arts & Culture

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The Jew­ish Women Writ­ers Who Made Their Mark on Café Culture

Shachar Pinsker
May 31, 2018
Essay

Get­ting to Know Sophie Tucker

Lau­ren Rebec­ca Sklaroff
May 3, 2018
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Write On, Irv­ing Berlin!
Leslie Kimmelman;‎ David C. Gardner, illus.
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The Joe Shus­ter Sto­ry: The Artist Behind Superman
Julian Voloj
Thomas Campi
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Visu­al Arts
Arti­sans of Israel: Tran­scend­ing Tradition
Lynn Hol­stein
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The Man Who Made the Movies: The Mete­oric Rise and Trag­ic Fall of William Fox
Vanda Krefft
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Visu­al Arts
The Telling Image: Shapes of Chang­ing Times
Lois Far­fel Stark
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Sav­ing Mona Lisa: The Bat­tle to Pro­tect the Lou­vre and its Trea­sures from the Nazis
Ger­ri Chanel
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Chil­dren’s
The World Needs Beau­ti­ful Things
Leah Rachel Berkowitz; Daniele Fabbri, illus.
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Famous Father Girl: A Mem­oir of Grow­ing Up Bernstein
Jamie Bern­stein
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The War­saw Ghet­to in Amer­i­can Art and Culture
Saman­tha Baskind
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War­riors, Witch­es, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema
Rachel S. Harris
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Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker
Lau­ren Rebec­ca Sklaroff
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Seduced by Mrs. Robin­son: How ​“The Grad­u­ate” Became the Touch­stone of a Generation
Bev­er­ly Gray
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Kafka’s Last Tri­al: The Case of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
Ben­jamin Balint
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Touch­ing on Place: Archi­tec­tur­al Ele­ments in Israel
Chaim Beza­lel
Yon­nah Ben Levy
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