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Noël Kriftch­er

Noël 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)
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
Stein­berg at the New Yorker
Joel Smith
Non­fic­tion
We Jews and Blacks: Mem­oir With Poems
Willis Barn­stone
Non­fic­tion
Judais­m’s Encounter with Amer­i­can Sports
Jeffrey S. Gurock
Non­fic­tion
God on the Start­ing Line: The Tri­umph of a Catholic School Run­ning Team and Its Jew­ish Coach
Marc Bloom
Non­fic­tion
The Mag­nif­i­cent Sea­sons: How the Jets, Mets, and Knicks Made Sports His­to­ry and Uplift­ed a City and the Country
Art Shamsky;Barry Zeman
Non­fic­tion
Beyond Chutz­pah: On the Mis­use of Anti-semi­tism and the Abuse of History
Norman G. Finkelstein
Non­fic­tion
The Pain Of Knowledge
Yair Auron; Ruth Ruzga, trans.
Non­fic­tion
Blood Rela­tion
Eric Konigsberg
Fic­tion
The Cubs and the Kabbalist
Byron L. Sherwin
Non­fic­tion
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holo­caust America
Eric J. Sundquist
Non­fic­tion
Sweet and Low: A Fam­i­ly Story
Rich Cohen
Non­fic­tion
Des­ig­nat­ed Hebrew: The Ron Blomberg Story
Ron Blomberg, As Told To Dan Schlossberg

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