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    Cover of My Mother's Secret: A Novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region
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    My Moth­er’s Secret: A Nov­el of the Jew­ish Autonomous Region
    Ali­na Adams
    From the Journal

    Silence as Resis­tance: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Ilya Kamin­sky and Yaara Shehori

    Jaclyn Gilbert
    November 7, 2022
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    An Improb­a­ble Life: My Father’s Escape from Sovi­et Russia
    Karine Rashkovsky
    Cover of The Blumkin Project: A Biographical Novel
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    The Blumkin Project: A Bio­graph­i­cal Novel
    Christian Salmon; William Rodarmor, trans.
    Cover of Ethel's Song: Ethel Rosenberg's Life in Poems
    Poet­ry
    Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosen­berg’s Life in Poems
    Bar­bara Krasner
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    Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holo­caust Ends
    Lin­da Kinstler
    Cover of How the Soviet Jew Was Made
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    How the Sovi­et Jew Was Made
    Sasha Senderovich
    Cover of So They Remember: A Jewish Family's Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine
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    So They Remem­ber: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust in Sovi­et Ukraine
    Maksim Goldenshteyn
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    A Vis­it to Moscow
    Anna Olswanger, adapted from a story by Rabbi Rafael Grossman, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
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    The Ques­tion of ​‘A Vis­it to Moscow’

    Anna Olswanger
    May 23, 2022
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    Fam­i­ly Secrets Root­ed in Latvia

    Shelly Sanders
    May 2, 2022
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    Atom­ic Anna
    Rachel Baren­baum
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    Be Patient in Judg­ment: Pirkei Avot and the Cher­nobyl Disaster

    Rachel Baren­baum
    April 4, 2022
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    The Genius Under the Table: Grow­ing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
    Eugene Yelchin
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    Shaare Emu­nah

    Steven Volynets
    January 25, 2022
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    A Boy Is Not a Ghost
    Edeet Rav­el
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