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Beth Dwoskin

Beth Dwoskin is a retired librar­i­an with exper­tise in Yid­dish lit­er­a­ture and Jew­ish folk music.

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Go On Pretending
Ali­na Adams
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Non­fic­tion
Ira Gersh­win: A Life in Words
Michael Owen
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That Voice: In Search of Ann Drum­mond-Grant, the Singer Who Shaped My Life
Mar­cia Menter
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Fic­tion
In the Shad­ow of the Greenbrier
Emi­ly Matchar
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Fic­tion
Blank
Zib­by Owens
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Fic­tion
The Wan­der­ing Jew of St. Salacious
Ron Turk­er
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Fic­tion
Off to Join the Circus
Deb­o­rah Kalb
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Sing, Mem­o­ry: The Remark­able Sto­ry of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps
Makana Eyre
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Beethoven in the Bunker: Musi­cians Under the Nazi Regime
Fred Brouwers; Eileen J. Stevens, trans.
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My Moth­er’s Secret: A Nov­el of the Jew­ish Autonomous Region
Ali­na Adams
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My Life in the Sun­shine: Search­ing for My Father and Dis­cov­er­ing My Family 
Nabil Ayers
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Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
Mat­ti Friedman
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Leonard Cohen: The Mys­ti­cal Roots of Genius
Harry Freedman
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How to Find Your Way in the Dark
Derek B. Miller
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Tran­scend­ing Dystopia: Music, Mobil­i­ty, and the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty in Ger­many, 1945 – 1989
Tina Frühauf

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