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  • Must-Reads for Jewish Women
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    Must-Reads for Jewish Women
    Must-Reads for Jewish Women

    The novels and stories that capture our imaginations and are close to our hearts.

    The novels and stories that capture our imaginations and are close to our hearts.

  • Cold War Paranoia in ‘The Vixen’
    Books
    Cold War Paranoia in ‘The Vixen’
    Cold War Paranoia in ‘The Vixen’

    In Francine Prose’s latest novel, her protagonist finds himself at the crossroads of lies, love and espionage, navigating his Jewish identity in a world of ‘unassailable privilege.’

    In Francine Prose’s latest novel, her protagonist finds himself at the crossroads of lies, love and espionage, navigating his Jewish identity in a world of ‘unassailable privilege.’

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Panic in a Suitcase: A Novel
by Stewart Kampel
First-time author Yelena Akhtiorskaya explores the confounding life of émigrés from Russian-speaking Ukraine trying to build new lives in Brooklyn’s Little Odessa.
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The Anticancer Diet
by Zelda Shluker
Dr. David Khayat’s The Anticancer Diet is subtitled "Reduce cancer risk through the foods you eat." Both as professor and practicing oncologist, Dr. Khayat’s goal in this book,
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Duet in Beirut
by Zelda Shluker
This book is an original for more than one reason. To begin with, it is a first-time English translation of a writer popular in Israel. And that writer,
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Run You Down
by Zelda Shluker
In Julia Dahl’s first book, Invisible City, her central character, Rebekah Roberts, was a stringer, a rookie reporter trying to establish a foothold in a New York tabloid.
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On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War
by Haim Chertok
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein. (Simon & Schuster, 553 pp. $32.50) The “eve” in Bernard Wasserstein’s study
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In Paradise
by Joan Baum
In Paradise: A Novel by Peter Matthiessen. (Riverhead Books, 272 pp. $16 paper) Three weeks after 86-year-old Peter Matthiessen died on April 5, 2014, what he
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The Bridal Chair
by Joan Baum
The Bridal Chair: A Novel by Gloria Goldreich. (Sourcebooks Landmark, 496 pp. $14.99 paper) Thirty years ago, the world lost a great artist, Moishe Shagal, better
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Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers
by Curt Leviant
Jacob Dinezon (1856-1919) was a Yiddish novelist and short-story writer, as famous during his lifetime as Sholom Aleichem. Until now, his work has not appeared in English.

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