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    Renée Rosen
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    On Bit­ter­sweet Place
    Ron­na Wineberg
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    Her Moth­er’s Secret
    Barbara Garland Polikoff
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    Love is a Rebel­lious Bird
    Elayne Kasson 
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    Sun­days at Sinai: A Jew­ish Con­gre­ga­tion in Chicago
    Tobias Brinkmann
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    Jew­ish Maxwell Street Stories
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    A Woman of Uncer­tain Char­ac­ter: The Amorous and Rad­i­cal Adven­tures of My Moth­er Jen­nie (Who Always Want­ed to be a Respectable Jew­ish Mom) By Her Bas­tard Son
    Clancy Sigal
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    Love and Shame and Love
    Peter Orner
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    The 188th Cry­ba­by Brigade: A Skin­ny Jew­ish Kid From Chica­go Fights Hezbollah
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