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The Girl Who Sur­vived Auschwitz
Eti Elboim
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Chil­dren’s
Miryam’s Dance
Kerry Olitzky and Rachel Stock Spilker; John Baptist Tumuhaise, illus.
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The Extra­or­di­nary Drei­del: A Hanukkah Sto­ry from Israel
Devorah Omer; Aviel Basil, illus.; Shira Atik, trans.
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Natal­ie and the Nazi Sol­diers: The Sto­ry of a Hid­den Child in France Dur­ing the Holocaust 
Annette Gendler; Ste Johnson, illus.
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Touch­ing the Art
Mat­til­da Bern­stein Sycamore
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Anti­semitism: An Ancient Hatred in the Age of Iden­ti­ty Politics
Philip Slay­ton
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Tar­get Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sab­o­tage, Cyber­war­fare, Assas­si­na­tion – and Secret Diplo­ma­cy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Cre­ate a New Mid­dle East
Yon­ah Jere­my Bob
llan Evy­atar
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Mar­ty Glick­man: The Life of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Sports Legend
Jef­frey S. Gurock
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The Men Can’t Be Saved: A Novel
Ben Purk­ert

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The Wolf Hunt
Ayelet Gun­dar-Goshen
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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
Robert Alter
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Inside Infor­ma­tion
Eshkol Nevo; Sondra Silverston, trans.
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Impos­si­ble Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Cre­ation, Has Israel Ful­filled Its Founders’ Dreams?
Daniel Gordis
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What Makes an Apple?: Six Con­ver­sa­tions about Writ­ing, Love, Guilt, and Oth­er Pleasures
Amos Oz with Shira Hadad, Jessica Cohen (Translator)

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