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Items with the category:

Historical Fiction

Fiction—From the Journal

Kinder­trans­port

Josh Rol­nick
November 4, 2024
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Fic­tion
Thread­bare
Jane Loeb Rubin
Cover of Peggy
Fic­tion
Peg­gy
Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison
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Fic­tion
The Many Moth­ers of Ivy Puddingstone
Randy Susan Meyers
Essay

My Grandfather’s Secret: Jew­ish Inside the Man­hat­tan Project

Rachel Rob­bins
September 30, 2024
Cover of The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern
Fic­tion
The Love Elixir of Augus­ta Stern
Lyn­da Cohen Loigman
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Fic­tion
The Sound of a Thou­sand Stars
Rachel Rob­bins
Interview—From the Journal

Anne Frank Before the Diary: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Alice Hoffman

Simona Zaret­sky
September 16, 2024
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Chil­dren’s
An Etrog from Across the Sea
Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky; Stacey Dressen McQueen, illus.
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Fic­tion
Don’t For­get to Write
Sara Good­man Confino
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Fic­tion
The Miss­ing Pages
Alyson Rich­man
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Fic­tion
Cross­roads of Empire
Michael J. Cooper
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Fic­tion
Soul Mis­sion
Joshua Beck­er
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Fic­tion
No Mat­ter How Far: Based on the True Sto­ry of a Holo­caust Sur­vivor’s Tire­less Search to Find His Wife in Post-War Europe
Gene Green­berg
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Fic­tion
The Oth­er
Jeff Markowitz
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Fic­tion
Dias­po­ra
Isa­iah Margulies
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