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Eat Jew­ish: Over 100 Recipes That Blend Jew­ish Her­itage, Mod­ern Fla­vors, and Fam­i­ly Traditions
Melin­da Strauss
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Poet­ry
The Eat­ing Knife
Ayelet Amit­tay
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The Book of Lost Hours
Hay­ley Gelfuso
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While Israel Slept: How Hamas Sur­prised the Most Pow­er­ful Mil­i­tary in the Mid­dle East
Yaakov Katz
Amir Bohbot
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Mile­na and Mar­garete: A Love Sto­ry in Ravensbrück
Gwen Strauss
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Shab­bat Shalom, the Trucks Come Home
Sher­ri Mandell
Viviana Garo­foli
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To Phrase A Prayer for Peace
Donna Spruijt-Metz
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The State of Amer­i­can Jew­ry: New Insights and Scholarship
Fred­er­ick E. Greenspahn
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Serge
Yasmina Reza; Jeffrey Zuckerman, trans.

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The Anato­my of Exile
Zee­va Bukai
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The Gates of Gaza: A Sto­ry of Betray­al, Sur­vival and Hope on Israel’s Borderlands
Amir Tibon
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Becom­ing Janet: Find­ing Myself in the Holocaust
Janet Singer Applefield
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Sabor Judío: The Jew­ish Mex­i­can Cookbook
Ilan Sta­vans
Mar­garet E. Boyle
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Next Stop
Ben­jamin Resnick

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