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    Cover of Parting Words: 9 Lessons for a Remarkable Life
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    Part­ing Words: 9 Lessons for a Remark­able Life
    Benjamin Ferencz
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    My Sec­ond-Favorite Country
    Sivan Zakai
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    An Uncho­sen Peo­ple: Jew­ish Polit­i­cal Reck­on­ing in Inter­war Poland
    Ken­neth B. Moss
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    Bib­li­cal Women and Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Mid­dle Ages
    Eli­she­va Baumgarten
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    Chil­dren’s
    A Boy Is Not a Ghost
    Edeet Rav­el
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    Zap! Bam! Swoosh! and So Much More: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Jere­my Dauber about Amer­i­can Comics

    Saman­tha Baskind
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    The Last Let­ter: A Father’s Strug­gle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    Karen Baum Gordon
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    Stud­ies in Spirituality
    Jonathan Sacks
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    A Book Hap­pened Around Me: Writ­ing ​‘These Are the Devel­op­ments of the Human’

    Ethan Daniel Davidson
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    The New York­ers: 31 Remark­able Peo­ple, 400 Years, and the Untold Biog­ra­phy of the World’s Great­est City
    Sam Roberts
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    The Jew­ish Neigh­bors of ​‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’

    Ariel­la Carmell
    December 15, 2021
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    What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?: Dis­cov­er a Life Filled with Pur­pose and Joy Through the Secrets of Jew­ish Wisdom
    Michal Oshman
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    A Fortress in Brook­lyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Mak­ing of Hasidic Williamsburg
    Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
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    Filled with Fire and Light: Por­traits and Leg­ends from the Bible, Tal­mud, and Hasidic World 
    Elie Wiesel, Alan Rosen (Editor)
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    These are the Devel­op­ments of the Human
    Ethan Daniel Davidson
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    Com­ing to Terms with Amer­i­ca: Essays on Jew­ish His­to­ry, Reli­gion, and Culture
    Jonathan D. Sarna
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