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Shelby Shapiro. Words to the Wives: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity.
This book argues that the Yiddish press of the early twentieth century played a fundamental role in shaping Jewish immigrant women’s identities.
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SHARP 2025 Rochester Conference Reports: Part I
We are thrilled to share with you a number of short reports on the SHARP 2025 conference that took place in Rochester, NY July 7-10. Read below to learn more…
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Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman, eds. American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History.
American Contact is a collection of object biographies that takes seriously the epistemological aliveness of its subjects.
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Seth Kimmel. The Librarian’s Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern Spain.
Seth Kimmel’s book traces the exchange and uses of information collection and organization practices across Iberia and the Mediterranean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Debbie Berne. The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers.
An insightful addition to the bibliography on book design, this book explains the critical role design plays in book publishing.
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Nir Shafir. The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire.
This book traces why early modern Ottomans prioritized manuscripts as the desired form of social communication and explores their multifaceted and complex effects on the public sphere.
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Christine Larson. Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing & Success.
Christine Larson’s book shines a light on romance writers’ extraordinary success in the realm of electronic self-publishing.
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Deborah Parker. Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters.
Belle da Costa Greene, famous for her work as the first librarian of the Morgan Library, is brought to life through her letters to art critic and historian Bernard Berenson…
