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    Malv­ina D. Engelberg

    Malv­ina D. Engel­berg, an inde­pen­dent schol­ar, has taught com­po­si­tion and lit­er­a­ture at the uni­ver­si­ty lev­el for the past fif­teen years. She is a Ph.D. can­di­date at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Miami.
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    Non­fic­tion
    Writ­ing a Jew­ish Life: Memoirs
    Lev Raphael
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    Fic­tion
    Gael
    Judith Mok
    Cover of Jewish Writing and the Deep Places of the Imagination
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    Jew­ish Writ­ing and the Deep Places of the Imagination
    Mark Krupnick; Jean K. Carney; Mark Shechner, eds.
    Cover of If You Awaken Love
    Fic­tion
    If You Awak­en Love
    Emu­na Elon
    Cover of The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood
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    The Mas­cot: Unrav­el­ing the Mys­tery of My Jew­ish Father’s Nazi Boyhood
    Mark Kurzem
    Cover of The Song Before It Is Sung
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    The Song Before It Is Sung
    Justin Cartwright
    Cover of Memory
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    Mem­o­ry
    Philippe Grimbert; Polly McClean, trans.
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    Fic­tion
    So Long at the Fair
    Christina Schwarz
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Jew­ish Odyssey of George Eliot
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
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    Laish
    Aharon Appelfeld
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    Fic­tion
    The Ban­quet of Esther Rosenbaum
    Penny Simpson
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    Fic­tion
    The Kind­ly Ones
    Jonathan Littell; Charlotte Mandell, trans.
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    The Belat­ed Wit­ness: Lit­er­a­ture, Tes­ti­mo­ny, and the Ques­tion of Holo­caust Survival
    Michael G. Levine
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    Using and Abus­ing the Holocaust
    Lawrence L. Langer
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    Iden­ti­ty and Mod­ern Israeli Literature
    Risa Domb

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