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    Cover of Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler: A True Love Story Rediscovered
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    Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler: A True Love Sto­ry Rediscovered
    Trudy Kanter
    Cover of Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics
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    Inquisi­to­r­i­al Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Oth­er Heretics
    Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
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    Break­ing Ground: Adven­tures in Life and Architecture
    Daniel Libeskind
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    Mat­zo Balls for Break­fast and Oth­er Mem­o­ries of Grow­ing Up Jewish
    Alan King and Friends. Foreword by Larry King.
    Cover of Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War,1937-1948
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    Prague Win­ter: A Per­son­al Sto­ry of Remem­brance and War,1937 – 1948
    Madeleine Albright
    Cover of Of No Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925-1945: A Memoir
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    Of No Inter­est to the Nation: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in France, 1925 – 1945: A Memoir
    Gilbert Michlin; Afterword by Zeev Sternhell
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    Ten Green Bottles
    Vivian Jeanette Kaplan
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    A Tale of Love and Darkness
    Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans.
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    A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem
    Aharon Appelfeld; paintings by Meir Appelfeld; Aloma Halter, trans.
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    Oma­ha Blues: A Mem­o­ry Loop
    Joseph Lelyveld
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    Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
    Gene Wilder
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    They All Sang My Songs
    Jack Lawrence
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    Com­pa­ny C: An Amer­i­can’s Life as a Cit­i­zen-Sol­dier in Israel
    Haim Watz­man
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    Jubana! The Awk­ward­ly True and Daz­zling Adven­tures of a Jew­ish Cuban Goddess
    Gigi Anders
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    Tevye’s Grand­chil­dren: Redis­cov­er­ing Jew­ish Identity
    Eleanor Mallet
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    Ency­clo­pe­dia of an Ordi­nary Life
    Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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