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The Salome Ensemble and the Dialectics of Visibility: Rose Pastor Stokes, Anzia Yezierska, Sonya Levien and Jetta Goudal
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The Salome Ensemble takes a look at four Jewish women who, during the 1920s in New York City, manage to work together, inspiring ...Read Review
Fanny Seward: A Life
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Trudy Krisher has breathed life back into a woman who died much too young. Using Seward’s invaluable diaries written right before, during ...Read Review
Tree of Pearls
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This book is essentially two stories in one; both take place in the 13th-century Abbasid Empire. The first story takes place in Egypt ...Read Review
Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935
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The first third of the 20th century was a time of change in America. Industrialization meant greater wealth and more time in the ...Read Review
Dalliance
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In May of 1848, while visiting relatives and friends in New York City, Mary Turner has a very strange dream. Encased inside a seal ...Read Review
The Daguerreotype
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In 1849, Elizabeth Gow is given a keepsake for her seventeenth birthday: a daguerreotype portrait of her father, contained in its own special box. ...Read Review
A Woman Named Solitude
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The slave trade in Guadeloupe provides the grim historical context for this brief but powerful novel. The opening chapters describe an indigenous African ...Read Review
The Red Heifer
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Told from the point of view of a first-generation Jewish immigrant, only five when the story begins, this work deals with the trials ...Read Review
Hayati, My Life: A Novel (Arab American Writing)
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A series of interwoven vignettes detailing the life experiences of three generations of Arab women and the men in their lives, this short ...Read Review
