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History

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Poet­ry
Seder
Adam Kammerling
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Non­fic­tion
Time and Dif­fer­ence in Rab­binic Judaism
Sarit Kattan Gribetz
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Non­fic­tion
Demons, Angels, and Writ­ing in Ancient Judaism
Annette Yoshiko Reed
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Non­fic­tion
Forg­ing Ties, Forg­ing Pass­ports: Migra­tion and the Mod­ern Sephar­di Diaspora
Devi Mays
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Non­fic­tion
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Mod­ern History
Dina Danon
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Non­fic­tion
Her Sto­ry, My Sto­ry? Writ­ing About Women and the Holocaust
Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer (eds.)
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Non­fic­tion
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Anti­se­mit­ic Myth
Mag­da Teter
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Chil­dren’s
We Had to Be Brave: Escap­ing the Nazis on the Kindertransport
Deb­o­rah Hopkinson
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Rab­bi Leo Baeck: Liv­ing a Reli­gious Imper­a­tive in Trou­bled Times
Michael A. Meyer
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Stepchil­dren of the Shtetl: The Des­ti­tute, Dis­abled, and Mad of Jew­ish East­ern Europe, 1800 – 1939
Natan M. Meir
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Non­fic­tion
Esther: Pow­er, Fate and Fragili­ty in Exile
Dr. Erica Brown
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Fic­tion
White Rose
Kip Wil­son
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Chil­dren’s
A Bas­ket Full of Figs
Ori Elon (auth.), Menahem Halberstadt (illus.)  
Essay

Hanukkah as History

Emi­ly Schneider
December 22, 2019
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The Accu­sa­tion: Blood Libel in an Amer­i­can Town
Edward Beren­son
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Non­fic­tion
Tehran Chil­dren: A Holo­caust Refugee Odyssey
Mikhal Dekel
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