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    Noth­ing Could Stop Her: The Coura­geous Life of Ruth Gruber
    Rona Arato; Isabel Muñoz, illus.
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    Pro­fes­sor Schif­f’s Guilt
    Agur Schiff; Jessica Cohen, trans.
    Essay

    The Rel­e­vance of Ruth to Shavuot

    Ilana Pardes
    May 19, 2023
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    Speak­ing Yid­dish to Chick­ens: Holo­caust Sur­vivors on South Jer­sey Poul­try Farms
    Seth Stern
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    Night Angels
    Weina Dai Randel
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    Nine Jew­ish Writ­ers Share Their Must-Read Books for Wom­en’s His­to­ry Month

    JBC Staff
    March 13, 2023
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    A Nation of Refugees: Rus­si­a’s Jews in World War I
    Pol­ly Zavadivker
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    The Dif­fer­ences Between Us

    Arman­do Lucas Correa
    January 9, 2023
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    The Vil­lage Idiot
    Steve Stern
    Cover of Helmi's Shadow: A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West
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    Helmi’s Shad­ow: A Jour­ney of Sur­vival From Rus­sia to East Asia to the Amer­i­can West
    David Hor­gan
    Essay

    The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writ­ing a Sephardic Pic­ture Book

    Ruth Behar
    June 13, 2022
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    The Jews Should Keep Qui­et: Franklin D. Roo­sevelt, Rab­bi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
    Rafael Medoff
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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 Shel­ter and the Fence: When 982 Holo­caust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America
    Norman H. Finkelstein
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    Paris, 1939

    Meg Waite Clayton
    October 25, 2021
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    37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939
    Bar­bara Krasner
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