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    Historical Fiction

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    Doña Gra­ci­a’s Secret: The Adven­tures of an Extra­or­di­nary Jew­ish Woman in the Renaissance
    Mar­i­lyn Froggatt
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    Fic­tion
    The Order
    Daniel Sil­va
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    Fic­tion
    The Last Rose of Shanghai
    Weina Dai Randel
    Essay

    Write What You Know: How My Sovi­et Jew­ish Immi­grant Expe­ri­ence Final­ly Became a Book

    Ali­na Adams
    January 12, 2021
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    Strangers in a Stranger Land: How One Coun­try’s Jews Fought an Unwinnable War along­side Nazi Troops… and Survived
    John B. Simon
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    Fic­tion
    The Paper Girl of Paris
    Jor­dyn Taylor
    Fiction—From the Journal

    The Lit­tle Bottles

    Weaver
    December 14, 2020
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    Fic­tion
    The Imper­fects
    Amy Mey­er­son
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    Fic­tion
    The Lost Shtetl
    Max Gross
    Essay

    How To Write Detec­tive Novels 

    Jonathan Dun­sky
    December 11, 2020
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    Fic­tion
    The Way Back
    Gavriel Sav­it
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Eight Knights of Hanukkah
    Leslie Kimmelman, Galia Bernstein (illus.)
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    Anya and the Nightingale
    Sofiya Paster­nack
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    The Diary of Ass­er Levy: First Jew­ish Cit­i­zen of New York
    Daniela Weil
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    Chil­dren’s
    Vil­lage of Scoundrels
    Mar­gi Preus
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    Chil­dren’s
    Beni’s War
    Tam­mar Stein
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