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    Cookbook
    Jew­ish Soul Food: From Min­sk to Mar­rakesh, More Than 100 Unfor­get­table Dish­es Updat­ed for Today’s Kitchen
    Jan­na Gur
    Nonfiction
    The Intel­lec­tu­al His­to­ry and Rab­binic Cul­ture of Medieval Ashkenaz
    Ephraim Kanar­fo­gel
    Nonfiction
    Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
    Bracha Yaniv
    Nonfiction
    The Rise of the Mod­ern Yid­dish Theater
    Alyssa Quint
    Nonfiction
    Where the Angels Lived: One Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Exile, Loss, and Return
    Mar­garet McMullan
    Nonfiction
    Moth­er’s Cen­tu­ry: A Sur­vivor, Her Peo­ple and Her Times
    Richard L. Hermann
    Fiction
    The Nice Lit­tle Blonde Girl: A Lily Kovn­er Jew­ish Miss Marple Novel
    Lin­da Frank
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    The Numis­ma­tist’s Wife
    Dahlia Japhet
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    The Paris Photo
    Jane Gabin
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    Dis­pos­able Man
    Michael Lev­itin
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    Jew­ish Food: The World at Table
    Matthew Good­man
    Nonfiction
    The Rest of Us: The Rise of Amer­i­ca’s East­ern Euro­pean Jews
    Stephen Birm­ing­ham
    Nonfiction
    The YIVO Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jews in East­ern Europe
    Ger­shon David Hun­dert, ed.
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    Cul­ture Front: Rep­re­sent­ing Jews in East­ern Europe
    Ben­jamin Nathans and Gabriel­la Safran, eds.
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    Anti-Jew­ish Vio­lence: Rethink­ing the Pogrom in East Euro­pean History
    Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir and Israel Bar­tal, eds.
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    Kiev: Jew­ish Metrop­o­lis. A His­to­ry, 1859 – 1914
    Natan M. Meir
    Fiction
    Folk­tales of the Jews, Vol­ume 2: Tales from East­ern Europe
    Dan Ben-Amos, ed.; Dov Noy, con­sult­ing ed.; Ellen Frankel , series ed.
    Nonfiction
    The Jews of East­ern Europe, 1772 – 1881
    Israel Bar­tal; Chaya Naor, trans.
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    My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
    Joce­lyn Cohen and Daniel Soy­er, ed. and trans.
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    Insid­ers and Out­siders: Dilem­mas of East Euro­pean Jewry
    Richard I. Cohen, Jonathan Frankel and Ste­fani Hoff­man, eds.
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