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Arlene B. Soifer

Arlene B. Soifer earned degrees in Eng­lish, and has had many years of expe­ri­ence as a free­lance writer, edi­tor, and pub­lic rela­tions professional.
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Let It Be Morning
Sayed Kashua
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Hag­gadah and History
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
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Lilah: A Novel
Marek Halter; Howard Curtis, trans.
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Marc Cha­gall and the Lost Jew­ish World
Benjamin Harshav
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Jews With­out Money
Michael Gold
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The Rest of Us: The Rise of Amer­i­ca’s East­ern Euro­pean Jews
Stephen Birmingham
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Far From Zion: Jews, Dias­po­ra, Memory
Jason Francisco
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Reflec­tions of Prague: Jour­neys Through the 20th Century
Ivan Margolius
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My Grand­par­ents, My Par­ents and I: Jew­ish Art and Culture
Edward van Voolen
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Music in Jew­ish His­to­ry and Culture
Emanuel Rubin; John H. Baron
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Argu­ing with the Storm: Sto­ries by Yid­dish Women Writers
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The Red Leather Diary
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Aleksandra Shatskikh; Katherine Foshko Tsan, trans.
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The New Authen­tics: Artists of the Post-Jew­ish Generation
Staci Boris

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