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    Ada Brun­stein

    Ada Brun­stein is the Head of Ref­er­ence at a uni­ver­si­ty press.

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    by Ada Brun­steinNao­mi Alder­man was a final­ist for the 2007 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture and is a Sami Rohr Prize Lit­er­ary Insti­tute fel­low.…
    Ada Brun­stein
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