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    Noel Kriftch­er

    Noel Kriftch­er was a pro­fes­sor and admin­is­tra­tor at Poly­tech­nic Uni­ver­si­ty, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly served as Super­in­ten­dent of New York City’s Brook­lyn & Stat­en Island High Schools district.
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    Visu­al Arts
    Jew­ish Fathers: A Lega­cy of Love
    Lloyd Wolf (p); Paula Wolfson (Interviews)
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    Non­fic­tion
    A Sense of the Mys­te­ri­ous: Sci­ence and the Human Spirit
    Alan Light­man
    Non­fic­tion
    Men of Tomor­row: Geeks, Gang­sters and the Birth of the Com­ic Book
    Gerard Jones
    Non­fic­tion
    We Jews and Blacks: Mem­oir With Poems
    Willis Barn­stone
    Non­fic­tion
    Stein­berg at the New Yorker
    Joel Smith
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    God on the Start­ing Line: The Tri­umph of a Catholic School Run­ning Team and Its Jew­ish Coach
    Marc Bloom
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    Judais­m’s Encounter with Amer­i­can Sports
    Jeffrey S. Gurock
    Cover of The Magnificent Seasons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports History and Uplifted a City and the Country
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    The Mag­nif­i­cent Sea­sons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports His­to­ry and Uplift­ed a City and the Country
    Art Shamsky;Barry Zeman
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    The Pain Of Knowledge
    Yair Auron; Ruth Ruzga, trans.
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    Beyond Chutz­pah: On the Mis­use of Anti-semi­tism and the Abuse of History
    Norman G. Finkelstein
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    Blood Rela­tion
    Eric Konigsberg
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    Fic­tion
    The Cubs and the Kabbalist
    Byron L. Sherwin
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    Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holo­caust America
    Eric J. Sundquist
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    Sweet and Low: A Fam­i­ly Story
    Rich Cohen
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    Des­ig­nat­ed Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story
    Ron Blomberg, As Told To Dan Schlossberg

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