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    Dutch Girl: Audrey Hep­burn and World War II
    Robert Matzen (auth.), Luca Doti (foreward)
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    Elie Wiesel: An Extra­or­di­nary Life and Legacy
    Nadine Epstein
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    Union Made: Labor Leader Samuel Gom­pers and his Fight for Work­ers’ Rights
    Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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    The Book Res­cuer: How a Men­sch from Mass­a­chu­setts Saved Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture for Gen­er­a­tions to Come
    Sue Macy (auth.), Stacy Innerst (illus.) 
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    Los­ing Our Reli­gion: Find­ing Kin­ship with Peg­gy Guggenheim

    Court­ney Maum
    October 7, 2019
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    The Book of Sarah
    Sarah Light­man
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    Karl Marx: Phi­los­o­phy and Revolution
    Shlo­mo Avineri
    Interview

    Son­tag: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Ben­jamin Moser

    Bob Gold­farb
    September 23, 2019
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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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    Grow­ing Up Below Sea Lev­el: A Kib­butz Childhood
    Rachel Biale
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    Dri­ving to Tre­blin­ka: A Long Search for a Lost Father
    Diana Wich­tel
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    Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occu­pied Paris
    Arthur J. Magida
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    Hid­den Recipes: A Holo­caust Memoir
    Eva Mor­ei­mi
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    The Mas­ter of the Lad­der: The Life and Teach­ings of Rab­bi Yehu­dah Leib Ashlag
    Yedi­dah Cohen
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    In the Caul­dron: Ter­ror, Ten­sion, and the Amer­i­can Ambas­sador’s Strug­gle to Avoid Pearl Harbor
    Lew Paper
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    Bar­ry Gewen
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