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    Cover of The Rabbi and the Reverend: Joachim Prinz, Martin Luther King Jr., and Their Fight against Silence
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    The Rab­bi and the Rev­erend: Joachim Prinz, Mar­tin Luther King Jr., and Their Fight against Silence
    Audrey Ades; Chiara Fedele, illus.
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    Deb­o­rah Cohen
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    Lis­ten, World!: How the Intre­pid Elsie Robin­son Became Amer­i­ca’s Most-Read Woman
    Alli­son Gilbert
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    Naked: On Sex, Work, and Oth­er Burlesques
    Fan­cy Feast
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    Acts of Atonement
    S.W. Leich­er
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    Slow Cooked: An Unex­pect­ed Life in Food Politics
    Mar­i­on Nestle
    Cover of Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
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    Demo­c­ra­t­ic Jus­tice: Felix Frank­furter, the Supreme Court, and the Mak­ing of the Lib­er­al Establishment
    Brad Sny­der
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    The Stock­well Letters
    Jacque­line Friedland
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    Let Lib­er­ty Rise!: How America’s School­child­ren Helped Save the Stat­ue of Liberty
    Chana Stiefel, Chuck Groenink (Illustrator)
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    The Dar­ing Life and Dan­ger­ous Times of Eve Adams
    Jonathan Ned Katz
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    Paper Bul­lets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
    Jef­frey H. Jackson
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    Yitzy Aims High
    Ann D. Koffsky
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    The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immi­grant House­wives and the Riots that Shook New York City
    Scott D. Seligman
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    Songs in Dark Times: Yid­dish Poet­ry of Strug­gle from Scotts­boro to Palestine
    Amelia M. Glaser
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    Jew­ish Sleep­away Camp Gave My Messy Human Body a Home

    Ariel­la Elovic
    February 10, 2021
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    Jew­ish Wom­en’s His­to­ry from Antiq­ui­ty to the Present
    Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn Winer (Editors)
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