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    Hou­di­ni: The Elu­sive American
    Adam Beg­ley
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    The Polio Pio­neer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
    Linda Elovitz Marshall, Lisa Anchin (illus.)
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    Don’t Touch the Bones
    Julia Kolchin­sky Dasbach 
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    The Beau­ty and the Ter­ror: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of the Ital­ian Renaissance
    Cather­ine Fletcher
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    The Last Mil­lion: Europe’s Dis­placed Per­sons from World War to Cold War
    David Nasaw
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    From Left to Right…and Every­thing in Between: The Impor­tance of Jew­ish Polit­i­cal Diversity

    Wednesday, January 6, 2021
    12:30–1:30pm

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    In part­ner­ship with Jew­ish Book Coun­cil, Natan Fund, and Shalom Hart­man Insti­tute of North America

    Poetry

    ‘The Ran­dom Hand of Mercy’

    Har­ri­et Shenkman
    November 30, 2020
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    The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement
    Alan Kadish
    Michael A. Shmidman
    Sim­cha Fishbane
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    Excerpt — The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement 

    Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman, Sim­cha Fishbane
    November 23, 2020
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    Jew­ish Music in Amer­i­ca — Dias­poric Diversity

    Tina Frühauf
    November 19, 2020
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    The New Jew­ish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980 – 2015
    Yehuda Kurtzer, Claire E. Sufrin (eds.)  
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    The Mik­vah

    Daniela Weil
    November 16, 2020
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    Nicanor’s Gate
    Eric A. Kimmel, Alida Massari (illus.)
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    The Diary of Ass­er Levy: First Jew­ish Cit­i­zen of New York
    Daniela Weil
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    The Pol­i­tics of Amer­i­can Jews
    Her­bert F. Weisberg
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