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Essay You Can’t Be a Jew(ish Poet) Alone: A Guide to Finding Community David Ebenbach April 10, 2023
Interview Catskills, Compulsion, and Conventionality: A Conversation with Sara Lippmann Avner Landes February 27, 2023
Essay The Blue Book: Reanimating Jewish New Orleans Through Fiction Kitty Zeldis February 20, 2023
Nonfiction Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer Jeremy D. Popkin
Nonfiction The Sages: Character, Context and Creativity, Vol. V: The Yeshivot of Babylonia and Israel Binyamin Lau; Ilana Kurshan, trans.
Interview Frankly Feminist and Paper Brigade: Editors Susan Weidman Schneider, Yona McDonough, Becca Kantor, and Carol Kaufman in Conversation JBC Staff November 22, 2022
Interview Rebuilding a Jewish Past: A Conversation with Chana Stiefel and Susan Gal Emily Schneider November 4, 2022
Interview ‘Believing in Bashert’: A Conversation Between Elyssa Friedland and Jean Meltzer Elyssa Friedland, Jean Meltzer August 8, 2022
Nonfiction The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature Josh Lambert