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Peter E. Kornblum

Peter E. Korn­blum holds a Ph.D. in Eng­lish from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia at Berkeley.He taught Eng­lish in the High School Divi­sion of the New York City Depart­ment ofE­d­u­ca­tion from 1981 through 2007.
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Hunt­ing the Truth: Mem­oirs of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld
Beate Klarsfeld, Serge Klarsfeld; Sam Taylor, trans.
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Art and the Artist in the Con­tem­po­rary Israeli Novel
Joseph Lowin
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Dis­tilled: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly, Sea­gram, Base­ball, and Philanthropy
Charles Bronfman with Howard Green
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About Econ­o­my and Sustenance
Aharon Ariel Lavi
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When Europe Was A Prison Camp: Father and Son Mem­oirs, 1940 – 1941
Otto Schrag and Peter Schrag
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Inside a Class Action: The Holo­caust and the Swiss Banks
Jane Schapiro
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Encoun­ter­ing Ellis Island: How Euro­pean Immi­grants Entered America
Ronald H. Bayor
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The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
Jonathan Franzen and Karl Kraus
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An Armen­ian Sketchbook
Vasily Grossman; Robert Chandler, trans.
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Simon Kuper
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Eman­ci­pa­tion Through Mus­cles: Jews and Sports in Europe
Michael Brenner; Gideon Reuveni, eds.

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