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    Excerpt: Unex­pect­ed Pas­sages, 1940 – 1941

    Rachel Scheer
    May 6, 2024
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    Non­fic­tion
    A Cold War Exo­dus: How Amer­i­can Activists Mobi­lized to Free Sovi­et Jews
    Shaul Kel­ner
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    My Life in Fragments
    Zygmunt Bauman
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    My Life in Recipes: Food, Fam­i­ly, and Memories
    Joan Nathan
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    Fic­tion
    The Hebrew Teacher
    Maya Arad; Jessica Cohen, trans. 
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Blue But­ter­fly of Cochin
    Ariana Mizrahi; Siona Benjamin, illus.
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    “One of a Kind: The Life of Syd­ney Tay­lor” — How the Book Began 

    Richard Michel­son
    March 11, 2024
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    On Her Own
    Lihi Lapid; Sondra Silverston, trans.
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    Stranger in the Desert: A Fam­i­ly Story
    Jor­dan Salama
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    The Winthrop Agreement
    Alice Simp­son
    Essay

    Four Sephardic Jew­ish Girls Caught in the Web of History

    Ruth Behar
    February 5, 2024
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    The Last Ships from Ham­burg: Busi­ness, Rival­ry, and the Race to Save Rus­si­a’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
    Steven Uji­fusa
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    Car­a­van of Hope: A Bukha­ran Wom­an’s Jour­ney to Freedom
    Dahlia Abra­ham-Klein
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    Hotel Cuba
    Aaron Ham­burg­er
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    Forged in Amer­i­ca: How Irish-Jew­ish Encoun­ters Shaped a Nation
    Hasia R. Diner
    Miri­am Nyhan Grey
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    The Mon­ey Kings: The Epic Sto­ry of the Jew­ish Immi­grants Who Trans­formed Wall Street and Shaped Mod­ern America
    Daniel Schul­man
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