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Nakam: The Holo­caust Sur­vivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge
Dina Porat
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The Dancer and the Dance: Essays on Skep­ti­cism and the Search for Meaning
Michael Wasser­man
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World Shad­ow
Nir Baram; Jessica Cohen, trans.
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How to Be a Men­sch, by A. Monster
Leslie Kimmelman; Sachiko Yoshikawa, illus.
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Pro­fes­sor of Apoc­a­lypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes
Jer­ry Z. Muller
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Jews Don’t Count
David Baddiel
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‘Dead Poets Soci­ety’ and Artis­tic Expression

Adam Kirsch
May 30, 2022
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The Dis­card­ed Life
Adam Kirsch
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You Are a Star, Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
Dean Robbins, Sarah Green (Illustrator)
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Old Truths and New Clichés: Essays by Isaac Bashe­vis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer, David Stromberg (Editor)
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George Soros: A Life In Full
Peter Osnos (Editor)
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Amer­i­can Shtetl: The Mak­ing of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Vil­lage in Upstate New York
Nomi M. Stolzenberg, David N. Myers
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I’d Like to Say Sor­ry, but There’s No One to Say Sor­ry To: Stories
Mikołaj Grynberg; Sean Gasper Bye, trans. 
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Warm and Wel­com­ing: How the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty Can Become Tru­ly Diverse and Inclu­sive in the 21st Century 
Warren Hoffman, Miri­am Stein­berg-Egeth
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