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    Cover of The Glass Plates of Lublin: Found Photographs of a Lost Jewish World
    Visu­al Arts
    The Glass Plates of Lublin: Found Pho­tographs of a Lost Jew­ish World
    Lisa Newman, Piotr Nazaruk, Aaron Lansky, eds.
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    Dear Selec­tion Committee
    Melis­sa Studdard
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    The Incan­des­cent Threads
    Richard Zim­ler
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    The Untold His­to­ry of Adop­tion Before Roe

    Gabrielle Glaser
    October 24, 2022
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    Hold­ing It All: The Pow­er of Poet­ry in a Beau­ti­ful, Bro­ken World

    David Eben­bach
    October 24, 2022
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    When the Angels Left the Old Country 
    Sacha Lamb
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    Pluralism’s Para­dox

    Emi­ly Tamkin
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    Ear­ly Jew­ish Cook­books: Essays on Hun­gar­i­an Jew­ish Gas­tro­nom­i­cal History
    András Koern­er
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    Sig­nal Fires
    Dani Shapiro
    Cover of Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
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    Bad Jews: A His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Pol­i­tics and Identities
    Emi­ly Tamkin
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    Excerpt: The Oppermanns 

    Joshua Cohen
    October 10, 2022
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    The Lebens­born Soci­ety: Writ­ing ​‘Cra­dles of the Reich’

    Jen­nifer Coburn
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    An Improb­a­ble Life: My Father’s Escape from Sovi­et Russia
    Karine Rashkovsky
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    Cook­ing alla Giu­dia: A Cel­e­bra­tion of the Jew­ish Food of Italy
    Benedet­ta Jas­mine Guetta
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    Excerpt: Kosher­soul

    Michael W. Twitty
    September 26, 2022
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    On Repen­tance And Repair: Mak­ing Amends in an Unapolo­getic World
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