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    Cover of Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing
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    Rosen­feld’s Lives: Fame, Obliv­ion, and the Furies of Writing
    Steven J. Zipperstein
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    Songs of Hope and Failure

    On Mon­day, Chris Mori­ar­ty wrote about why she wrote The Inquisi­tor’s Appren­tice. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.So the…
    Chris Mori­ar­ty
    November 30, 2011
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    Chil­dren’s
    Win­ter Blessings
    Izzy Abrahm­son
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    Chil­dren’s
    Out of Egypt
    Moshe Moscowitz and David Sokoloff; David Sokoloff and Jon Carter, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Purim Good­ies
    Amalia Hoffman, author and illustrator
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    Chil­dren’s
    Cel­e­brate Passover with Mat­zoh, Maror and Memories
    Deborah Heiligman; Joel Iskowitz, illus.; Shira Stern, consultant
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    Chil­dren’s
    Lot­ty’s Lace Tablecloth
    Tami Lehman-Wilzig; Ksenia Topaz, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Gold­en Dreydl
    Ellen Kushner; Ilene Winn-Lederer, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Like a Maccabee
    Barbara Bietz; Anita White, illus.
    Cover of Rabbi Jonathan Sack's Haggadah
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    Rab­bi Jonathan Sack­’s Haggadah
    Jonathan Sacks
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    Chil­dren’s
    My First Passover Board Book
    Clare Lister, ed.
    Cover of Celebrating the Jewish Year: The Spring and Summer Holidays
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    Cel­e­brat­ing the Jew­ish Year: The Spring and Sum­mer Holidays
    Paul Steinberg; Janet Greenstein Potter, ed.
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    Megillat Esther
    JT Wald­man
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    Chil­dren’s
    Joseph and the Sab­bath Fish
    Eric A. Kimmel; Martina Peluso, illus.
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    What’s the Buzz: Hon­ey for a Sweet New Year
    Allison Ofanansky; Eliyahu Alpern, illus.
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    Sadie’s Sukkah Breakfast
    Jamie Korngold; Julie Fortenberry, illus.
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