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    Deb­o­rah Schoeneman

    Deb­o­rah Schoen­e­man, is a for­mer Eng­lish teacher/​Writing Across the Cur­ricu­lum Cen­ter Coor­di­na­tor at North Shore Hebrew Acad­e­my High School and coed­i­tor of Mod­ern Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture: A Library of Lit­er­ary Crit­i­cism, Vol. VI, pub­lished in 1997.
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    Barbara Corrado Pope
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    Emily Warn Copper
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    Beads for the Mes­si­ah’s Bride: Poems on Leviticus
    Yakov Azriel
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    Bert Stern
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    Michal Mahbgerefteh
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    Dani Shapiro
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    Suzy Eban
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    Get­ting to the Heart of Inter­faith: The Eye-Open­ing, Hope-Filled Friend­ship of a Pas­tor, a Rab­bi and a Sheikh
    Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman
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    Hear O Lord: Poems from the Dis­tur­bances of 2000 – 2009
    Eliaz Cohen; Larry Barak, trans.
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    Linda Pastan
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    Jeff Friedman
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    Michal Govrin; Judith Miller, ed.
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    Babette Hughes
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    Ligia Rave

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