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Spot­light on Ukraine

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Poetry
Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky
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Putin's Hybrid War and the Jews: Antisemitism, Propaganda, and the Displacement of Ukrainian Jewry
Sam Sokol
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When They Come For Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
Gal Beckerman
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A Promise of Sweet Tea: Memoirs of a Survivor
Pinchas Eliyahu Blitt
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Don't Touch the Bones
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach 
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Mother Country
Irina Reyn
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Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity
Zvi Gitelman
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Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence
Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
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From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories
Fradl Shtok, Allison Schachter and Jordan D. Finkin (Translators)
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Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse
Jane Yolen
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Hiding in the Spotlight: A Musical Prodigy's Story of Survival, 1941-1946
Greg Dawson
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