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Children’s Parrots, Pugs, and Pixie Dust: A Book About Fashion Designer Judith Leiber Deborah Blumenthal, Masha D’Yans (illus.)
Nonfiction They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and Their Children Hannah Hahn
Nonfiction The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture Dalia Kandiyoti
Nonfiction Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II Ori Yehudai
Nonfiction Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora Devi Mays
Nonfiction Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe Laurel Leff
Nonfiction Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) Boris Fishman
From the Journal The Refugee in Fiction: A Conversation with Jenny Erpenbeck and Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Becca Kantor November 18, 2019
Children’s Union Made: Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his Fight for Workers’ Rights Norman H. Finkelstein
Essay ‘It’s God’s Party and Everyone’s Invited’ Sukkot, Simchat Torah, and Gender in Two Classic Children’s Books Emily Schneider October 14, 2019
