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    Miri­am Rinn

    Miri­am Rinn has been an edi­tor and writer for decades, recent­ly retir­ing from a posi­tion as com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er for JCC Asso­ci­a­tion. Her writ­ing has appeared in many news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines and she has won numer­ous awards, includ­ing a Rock­ow­er, for her work. She is a reg­u­lar review­er of books, film, and the­ater in print and on the Web, and is also the author of a children’s nov­el called The Sat­ur­day Secret, which has been cho­sen as a selec­tion by PJ Library.
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    Will Not Attend: Live­ly Sto­ries of Detach­ment and Isolation
    Adam Resnick
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    The Jew­ish Street: The City and Mod­ern Jew­ish Writing
    Murray Baungarten & Lee David Jaffe, eds.
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    Mirjam Zadoff; William Templer, trans.
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    Grand­daugh­ters of the Holo­caust: Nev­er For­get­ting What They Did­n’t Experience
    Nirit Gradwohl Pisano
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    Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Let­ters from Jew­ish Migrants in the Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth Century
    Gur Alroey
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    Jezebel
    Irene Nemirovsky; Sandra Smith, trans.
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    Pris­on­ers: A Mus­lim and a Jew Across the Mid­dle East Divide
    Jeffrey Goldberg

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