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Steven A. Luel

Steven A. Luel, Ph.D., is asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of edu­ca­tion and psy­chol­o­gy at Touro Col­lege, New York. He is a devel­op­men­tal psy­chol­o­gist and psy­cho­an­a­lyst in pri­vate prac­tice. He is co-edi­tor (with Paul Mar­cus) of Psy­cho­an­a­lyt­ic Reflec­tions on the Holo­caust: Select­ed Essays.
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This Close to Happy
Daphne Merkin
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What Are the Blind Men Dreaming?
Noe­mi Jaffe
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Hell Before Their Very Eyes: Amer­i­can Sol­diers Lib­er­ate Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, April 1945
John C. McManus
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Jew­ish Families
Jonathan Boyarin
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Beau­ti­ful Souls
Eyal Press
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Star­ing at the Sun: Over­com­ing the Ter­ror of Death
Irvin D. Yalom
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Twice Dead: Moshe Y. Lubling, The Ethics of Mem­o­ry, and the Tre­blin­ka Revolt
Yoram Lubling
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The Com­man­dant
Rudolph Hoess; Jurg Amann, ed.; Ian Buruma aftwd.
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The Jokes of Sig­mund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jew­ish Identity
Elliot Oring
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Hid­den Chil­dren of the Holo­caust: Bel­gian Nuns and Their Dar­ing Res­cue of Young Jews From Nazis
Suzanne Vromen
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Life and Death in the Third Reich
Peter Fritzsche
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Inside the Gas Cham­bers: Eight Months in the Son­derkom­man­do of Auschwitz
Shlomo Venezia
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Hos­pi­tal: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infin­i­ty, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behav­ior, Mon­ey, God and Diver­si­ty on Steroids
Julie Salamon
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A Guest in My Own Coun­try: A Hun­gar­i­an Life
George Konrad; Jim Tucker, trans.; Michael Henry Heim, ed.
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Beyond Anne Frank: Hid­den Chil­dren and Post­war Fam­i­lies in Holland
Diane L. Wolf

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