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    On Set­tler Colo­nial­ism: Ide­ol­o­gy, Vio­lence, and Justice
    Adam Kirsch
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    Through the Morgue Door: One Woman’s Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Sav­ing Chil­dren in Ger­man-Occu­pied Paris
    Colette Brull-Ulmann and Jean-Christophe Portes; Anne Landau and Margaret Sinclair, trans.
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    Love Let­ter From Pig: My Broth­er’s Sto­ry of Free­dom Summer
    Julie Kabat
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    Out­side Voic­es: A Mem­oir of the Berke­ley Revolution
    Joan Gelfand
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    In the Gar­den of the Right­eous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Richard Hurowitz
    Cover of Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa
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    Years of Glo­ry: Nel­ly Benatar and the Pur­suit of Jus­tice in Wartime North Africa
    Susan Gilson Miller
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    The Social Jus­tice Torah Commentary
    Bar­ry H. Block
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    Inter­na­tion­al Jew­ish Human­i­tar­i­an­ism in the Age of the Great War
    Jaclyn Granick
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    The Impos­si­ble Life of Beate Siro­ta Gordon

    Beate at Mills Col­lege, 1942

    Jeff Gottes­feld
    June 17, 2020
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    When Silence Speaks Volumes 

    Mar­ra B. Gad
    June 12, 2020
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    Dis­senter on the Bench: Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Life and Work
    Vic­to­ria Ortiz
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    How to Fight Anti-Semitism 
    Bari Weiss
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    Reread­ing My Moth­er’s Memoir 

    Helen Epstein
    January 24, 2020
    Civ­il Rights and Race 
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    Beyond the Shad­ows: The Holo­caust and the Dan­ish Exception

    Judy Glick­man Lauder, Elie Wiesel , Michael Beren­baum, Judith S. Goldstein 
    December 9, 2019
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