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The World and All That It Holds
Alek­san­dar Hemon
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The Rel­e­vance of Ruth to Shavuot

Ilana Pardes
May 19, 2023
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Fic­tion
Bread Givers
Anzia Yezierska
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The Salt Line
Youval Shimoni; Michael Sharp, trans;
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Blood of the Virgin
Sam­my Harkham
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We Sur­vived the Holo­caust: The Bluma and Felix Gold­berg Story
Frank W. Baker; Tim Ogline, illus.
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Jews of the Span­ish Home­land: Find­ing My Sephardic Fam­i­ly in a 1929 Film

Eliz­a­beth Graver
April 10, 2023
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Speak­ing Yid­dish to Chick­ens: Holo­caust Sur­vivors on South Jer­sey Poul­try Farms
Seth Stern
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Kan­ti­ka
Eliz­a­beth Graver
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The Con­fi­dante: The Untold Sto­ry of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Mod­ern America
Christo­pher C. Gorham
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Still Pic­tures: On Pho­tog­ra­phy and Memory
Janet Mal­colm
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Kün­stlers in Paradise
Cath­leen Schine
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After­math: Com­ing of Age on Three Continents
Annette Libeskind Berkovits
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The Blue Book: Rean­i­mat­ing Jew­ish New Orleans Through Fiction

Kit­ty Zeldis
February 20, 2023
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