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    Steven A. Luel

    Steven A. Luel, Ph.D., is asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of edu­ca­tion and psy­chol­o­gy at Touro Col­lege, New York. He is a devel­op­men­tal psy­chol­o­gist and psy­cho­an­a­lyst in pri­vate prac­tice. He is co-edi­tor (with Paul Mar­cus) of Psy­cho­an­a­lyt­ic Reflec­tions on the Holo­caust: Select­ed Essays.
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    This Close to Happy
    Daphne Merkin
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    What Are the Blind Men Dreaming?
    Noe­mi Jaffe
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    Hell Before Their Very Eyes: Amer­i­can Sol­diers Lib­er­ate Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, April 1945
    John C. McManus
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    Jew­ish Families
    Jonathan Boyarin
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    Beau­ti­ful Souls
    Eyal Press
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    Star­ing at the Sun: Over­com­ing the Ter­ror of Death
    Irvin D. Yalom
    Cover of Twice Dead: Moshe Y. Lubling, The Ethics of Memory, and the Treblinka Revolt
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    Twice Dead: Moshe Y. Lubling, The Ethics of Mem­o­ry, and the Tre­blin­ka Revolt
    Yoram Lubling
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    The Com­man­dant
    Rudolph Hoess; Jurg Amann, ed.; Ian Buruma aftwd.
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    The Jokes of Sig­mund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jew­ish Identity
    Elliot Oring
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    Suzanne Vromen
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    Peter Fritzsche
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    Shlomo Venezia
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    Julie Salamon
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    A Guest in My Own Coun­try: A Hun­gar­i­an Life
    George Konrad; Jim Tucker, trans.; Michael Henry Heim, ed.
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