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Escape from the Ghet­to: A Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Resilience in World War II
John Carr
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The Dead­ly Scrolls: Book 1 in The Jerusalem Mysteries
Ellen Frankel
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Tears Over Rus­sia: A Search for Fam­i­ly and the Lega­cy of Ukraine’s Pogroms
Lisa Brahin
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Becom­ing Ordi­nary: A Youth Born of the Holocaust,<br />What I kept. What I let Go
Michael Fox
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Mrs. Noah’s Doves
Jane Yolen; Alida Massari, illus.
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Things to Come and Go
Bette How­land
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Helmi’s Shad­ow: A Jour­ney of Sur­vival From Rus­sia to East Asia to the Amer­i­can West
David Hor­gan
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Is Super­man Cir­cum­cised?: The Com­plete Jew­ish His­to­ry of the World’s Great­est Hero
Roy Schwartz
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Mighty Inside
Sundee T. Frazier

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The Girl in the Mid­dle: Grow­ing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor
Anais Granofsky
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Loss of Mem­o­ry Is Only Tem­po­rary: Stories
Johan­na Kaplan
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Ashke­nazi Herbal­ism: Redis­cov­er­ing the Herbal Tra­di­tions of East­ern Euro­pean Jews
Deatra Cohen, Adam Siegel
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Fic­tion
Morn­ing­side Heights: A Novel
Joshua Henkin
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Recipes for a New Begin­ning: Tran­syl­van­ian Jew­ish Sto­ries of Life, Hunger, and Hope
Kinga Júlia Király

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