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Ashkenazi Jewry

Essay

Heal­ers of the Pale: A Hid­den Herbal Legacy

Deatra Cohen
April 5, 2021
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All Things That Deserve To Per­ish: A Nov­el Of Wil­helmine Germany
Dana Mack
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In the Midst of Civ­i­lized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918 – 1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
Jef­frey Veidlinger
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Fic­tion
Prairie Sonata
Sandy She­frin Rabin
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Sal­vage Poet­ics: Post-Holo­caust Amer­i­can Jew­ish Folk Ethnographies
Sheila Jelen
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Shloyml Boyml and His Lucky Dreydl
Yale Strom
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Fic­tion
Beyond the Ghet­to Gates: A Novel
Michelle Cameron
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Mixed Mes­sages: Reflec­tions on an Ital­ian Jew­ish Fam­i­ly and Exile
Eleanor Foa
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The Fabergé Secret
Charles Belfoure
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My City of Dreams: A Memoir
Lisa Gru­en­berg
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All the Hor­rors of War: A Jew­ish Girl, a British Doc­tor, and the Lib­er­a­tion of Bergen-Belsen
Ber­nice Lerner
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Non­fic­tion
The Betray­al of the Duchess: The Scan­dal That Unmade the Bour­bon Monar­chy and Made France Modern
Mau­rice Samuels
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Find­ing My Father: His Cen­tu­ry-Long Jour­ney from WWI War­saw and My Quest to Follow
Deb­o­rah Tannen
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The Carved Wood­en Torah Arks of East­ern Europe
Bracha Yaniv
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A Remem­brance of His Won­ders: Nature and the Super­nat­ur­al in Medieval Ashkenaz
David I. Shyovitz
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Sephardim and Ashkenazim

Sar­it Yishai-Levi
April 6, 2016
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