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Malv­ina D. Engelberg

Malv­ina D. Engel­berg, an inde­pen­dent schol­ar, has taught com­po­si­tion and lit­er­a­ture at the uni­ver­si­ty lev­el for the past fif­teen years. She is a Ph.D. can­di­date at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Miami.
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Non­fic­tion
Writ­ing a Jew­ish Life: Memoirs
Lev Raphael
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Non­fic­tion
Jew­ish Writ­ing and the Deep Places of the Imagination
Mark Krupnick; Jean K. Carney; Mark Shechner, eds.
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Fic­tion
Gael
Judith Mok
Cover of If You Awaken Love
Fic­tion
If You Awak­en Love
Emu­na Elon
Cover of The Song Before It Is Sung
Fic­tion
The Song Before It Is Sung
Justin Cartwright
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Fic­tion
Mem­o­ry
Philippe Grimbert; Polly McClean, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
The Mas­cot: Unrav­el­ing the Mys­tery of My Jew­ish Father’s Nazi Boyhood
Mark Kurzem
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Fic­tion
So Long at the Fair
Christina Schwarz
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Fic­tion
Laish
Aharon Appelfeld
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Non­fic­tion
The Jew­ish Odyssey of George Eliot
Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Fic­tion
The Ban­quet of Esther Rosenbaum
Penny Simpson
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Fic­tion
The Kind­ly Ones
Jonathan Littell; Charlotte Mandell, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
Using and Abus­ing the Holocaust
Lawrence L. Langer
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Non­fic­tion
The Belat­ed Wit­ness: Lit­er­a­ture, Tes­ti­mo­ny, and the Ques­tion of Holo­caust Survival
Michael G. Levine
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Non­fic­tion
Lab­o­ra­to­ry for World Destruc­tion: Ger­mans and Jews in Cen­tral Europe
Robert S. Wistrich

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