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xetptlil - ' Joel ben Izzy's The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
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EssaYOr Lee ant on Israel in the North American Literary Imagination.
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Excerpt: Lara Vapnyar's There are Jews in My House
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Excerpt: Norman Manea's The Hooligan's Return
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Essay: Dara Horn on Treasuring Yiddish for the Right Reasons
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Readings: Lefty Cottin Pogrebin on Murray Friedman's What Went Wrong:
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Excerpt: Nelly Reifler's "Julian," from See Through
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Excerpt: Melvin Bukiet's "Tongue of the Jews," from A Faker's Dozen
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Essay: Janet Burstein on the Lure of Biblical texts
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Reflections: Why Books Matter - Marilyn Waldman on literary
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