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We Are Going to Be Lucky: A World War II Love Sto­ry in Letters
Eliz­a­beth L. Fox
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Left to the Mer­cy of a Rude Stream: The Bar­gain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother
Stan­ley Goldman
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Rac­ing Against His­to­ry: The 1940 Cam­paign for a Jew­ish Army to Fight Hitler
Rick Rich­man
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Res­cue Board: The Untold Sto­ry of Amer­i­ca’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
Rebec­ca Erbelding
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Aroused: The His­to­ry of Hor­mones and How They Con­trol Just About Everything
Ran­di Hut­ter Epstein
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Pres­i­dent Carter: The White House Years
Stu­art E. Eizenstat
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The Sev­en, A Fam­i­ly Holo­caust Story
Ellen G. Friedman
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The First Egal­i­tar­i­an Minyan?

Shari Rabin
March 27, 2018
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Dreams of Re-Cre­ation in Jamaica: The Holo­caust, Intern­ment, Jew­ish Refugees in Gibral­tar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim
Diana Cooper-Clark
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The For­got­ten Jew­ish Ele­ment of the Wom­en’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement

Joyce Antler
March 7, 2018
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Jew­ish Rad­i­cal Fem­i­nism: Voic­es from the Women’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement
Joyce Antler
Essay

Rein­vent­ing the Black-Jew­ish Alliance of the 1960s

Marc Dollinger
February 26, 2018
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Black Pow­er, Jew­ish Pol­i­tics: Rein­vent­ing the Alliance in the 1960s
Marc Dollinger
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Maybe Esther: A Fam­i­ly Story
Katja Petrowskaja;‎ Shelley Frisch, trans.
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The Great Shift: Encoun­ter­ing God in Bib­li­cal Times
James L. Kugel
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Anato­my of a Geno­cide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
Omer Bar­tov
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