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    Genius & Anxiety
    Nor­man Lebrecht
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    Res­cue the Sur­viv­ing Souls: The Great Jew­ish Refugee Cri­sis of the Sev­en­teenth Century
    Adam Teller
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    Reread­ing My Moth­er’s Memoir 

    Helen Epstein
    January 24, 2020
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    Becom­ing RBG: Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Jour­ney to Justice
    Debbie Levy (auth.), Whitney Gardner (illus.)  
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    How Young Holo­caust Sur­vivors Rebuilt Their Lives
    Françoise S. Ouzan
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    Poet­ry
    Seder
    Adam Kammerling
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    Time and Dif­fer­ence in Rab­binic Judaism
    Sarit Kattan Gribetz
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    Demons, Angels, and Writ­ing in Ancient Judaism
    Annette Yoshiko Reed
    Cover of Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
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    Forg­ing Ties, Forg­ing Pass­ports: Migra­tion and the Mod­ern Sephar­di Diaspora
    Devi Mays
    Cover of The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History
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    The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Mod­ern History
    Dina Danon
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    Her Sto­ry, My Sto­ry? Writ­ing About Women and the Holocaust
    Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz and Dalia Ofer (eds.)
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    Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Anti­se­mit­ic Myth
    Mag­da Teter
    Cover of We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
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    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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    Esther: Pow­er, Fate and Fragili­ty in Exile
    Dr. Erica Brown
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