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Jew­ish Banned Books

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Nonfiction
Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
Anne Frank; Ari Folman, adapt.; David Polonsky, illus.
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Fiction
Call Me By Your Name
Andre Aciman
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Nonfiction
Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook
Christopher Noxon
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Children's
Number the Stars: 25th Anniversary Edition
Lois Lowry
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Fiction
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
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Nonfiction
The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
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Fiction
The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day
Elie Wiesel
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Fiction
All the Rivers: A Novel
Dorit Rabinyan; Jessica Cohen, trans.
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Nonfiction
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank; Susan Massotty, trans.
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Fiction
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
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Fiction
Life Goes On
Hans Keilson; Damion Searls, trans.
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Fiction
The English Teacher
Yiftach Reicher Atir; Philip Simpson, trans.
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Fiction
Suite Francaise
Irène Némirovsky; Sandra Smith, trans.
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Fiction
Herzog
Saul Bellow
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Fiction
Bee Season
Myla Goldberg
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Fiction
The Storyteller
Jodi Picoult
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Fiction
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
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