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    The Ger­man House
    Annette Hess, Elizabeth Lauffer (trans.)
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    A Brief His­to­ry of the Haggadah

    Mar­tin Bodek
    April 3, 2020
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    The Passover Hag­gadah: A Biography
    Vanes­sa L. Ochs
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    The Lom­bard Haggadah
    Milvia Bollati, Flora Cassen, and Marc Michael Epstein
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    Excerpt: Dig­ging Up Armageddon

    Eric H. Cline
    March 23, 2020
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    The Unwant­ed: Amer­i­ca, Auschwitz, and a Vil­lage Caught In Between
    Michael Dobbs
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    Mixed Mes­sages: Reflec­tions on an Ital­ian Jew­ish Fam­i­ly and Exile
    Eleanor Foa
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    The Life of a Coat
    Kadya Molodowsky, Batia Kolton (illus.), Ilana Kurshan (trans.)
    Cover of They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children
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    They Left It All Behind: Trau­ma, Loss, and Mem­o­ry Among East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immi­grants and Their Children
    Han­nah Hahn
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    The Free and the Brave
    Tovah S. Yavin
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    How to Fight Anti-Semitism 
    Bari Weiss
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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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