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Shira R. London Shira R. London is the librarian at Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community High School in Baltimore, MD. She holds an M.L.S. from Columbia University. Reviews Fiction The Last Collection: A Novel of Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel Jeanne Mackin Fiction The Song of the Jade Lily Kirsty Manning Fiction Gateway to the Moon: A Novel Mary Morris Nonfiction Theo: An Autobiography Theodore Bikel Nonfiction The Tailors of Tomaszow Allan Chernoff Nonfiction 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany Steven Pressman Nonfiction Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets Amelia Glaser; David Weintraub, eds. Nonfiction The Fortune Teller’s Kiss Brenda Serotte Nonfiction A Political Education: Coming of Age in Paris and New York André Schiffrin Fiction Out of the Depths & Other Stories Yosef Haim Brenner; David Patterson and Ezra Spicehandler, trans. Nonfiction Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity Rebecca Goldstein Fiction Heidegger’s Glasses Thaisa Frank Fiction A Jew Must Die Jacques Chessex; W. Donald Wilson, trans. Nonfiction Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore Elisa New
Nonfiction 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple’s Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany Steven Pressman
Fiction Out of the Depths & Other Stories Yosef Haim Brenner; David Patterson and Ezra Spicehandler, trans.
Nonfiction Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore Elisa New
