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    “Nice” Jew­ish Girls
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    Sal­ly Opened Doors: The Sto­ry of the First Woman Rabbi
    Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Margeaux Lucas, illus. 
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    Maris­sa Moss
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    Caren Schnur Neile
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    Florine Stet­theimer: A Biography
    Bar­bara Bloemink
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    Jer­ry Z. Muller
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    Salo Baron: The Past and Future of Jew­ish Stud­ies in America
    Rebecca Kobrin
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    Zabar’s: A Fam­i­ly Sto­ry, with Recipes
    Lori Zabar
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    Escape from the Ghet­to: A Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Resilience in World War II
    John Carr
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    Helmi’s Shad­ow: A Jour­ney of Sur­vival From Rus­sia to East Asia to the Amer­i­can West
    David Hor­gan
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    Rahel Varn­hagen: The Life of a Jew­ish Woman
    Hannah Arendt; Clara Winston and Richard Winston, trans.
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    Trac­ing Helmi’s Jour­ney: From Japan to the US

    David Hor­gan
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    Marc Wortman
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