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    Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture: A Very Short Introduction
    Ilan Sta­vans
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    When Anti­semitism Came to Venezuela

    Moisés Naím
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    Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald
    Carole Angier
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    Sephar­di: Cook­ing the His­to­ry. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Dias­po­ra, from the 13th Cen­tu­ry to Today
    Hélène Jawhara Piñer
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    Find­ing the Lost Café Schindler

    Meriel Schindler
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    Mark Pod­w­al
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    X Troop: The Secret Jew­ish Com­man­dos of World War II
    Leah Gar­rett
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    The Jew­ish Writer Behind Mozart’s Operas

    Howard Jay Smith
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    The House of Frag­ile Things: Jew­ish Art Col­lec­tors and the Fall of France
    James McAuley
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    ‘The Post Office’: A Play from India to Wartime Poland

    Jai Chakrabar­ti
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    Audrey Ades; Chiara Fedele, illus.
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    David Eisen­stadt
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    Uri Kauf­man
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    Natasha Lance Rogoff
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    Bro­ken Promis­es: The Sto­ry of a Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in Germany
    Bon­nie Suchman
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    Jews in the Gar­den: A Holo­caust Sur­vivor, the Fate of His Fam­i­ly, and the Secret His­to­ry of Poland in World War II
    Judy Rakowsky
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