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    Ashkenazi Jewry

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    A Jew in the Street and a Man in Your Tent?: Rab­bini­cal Dress in Vien­na at the Fin de Siècle

    Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum
    January 6, 2025
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    Fic­tion
    Lublin
    Manya Wilkin­son
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    Chil­dren’s
    Baila the Klopper
    Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod; Shirley Waisman, illus.
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    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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    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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    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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    The Betray­al of the Duchess: The Scan­dal That Unmade the Bour­bon Monar­chy and Made France Modern
    Mau­rice Samuels
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