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History

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Into the For­est: A Holo­caust Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Tri­umph, and Love
Rebec­ca Frankel
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Red Sea Spies: The True Sto­ry of Mossad’s Fake Div­ing Resort
Raf­fi Berg
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RBG’s Brave & Bril­liant Women: 33 Jew­ish Women to Inspire Everyone
Nadine Epstein
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When I Grow Up: The Lost Auto­bi­ogra­phies of Six Yid­dish Teenagers
Ken Krim­stein
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Miss Dior: A Sto­ry of Courage and Couture
Justine Picardie
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Under Jerusalem: The Buried His­to­ry of the World’s Most Con­test­ed City
Andrew Lawler
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Entebbe Declas­si­fied: The Untold First-Hand Sto­ries of the Leg­endary Res­cue Operation
Sayeret Matkal Operators, Mitch Ginsburg (Translator)
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From Africa to Zion: The Shep­herd Boy Who Became Israel’s First Ethiopi­an-Born Journalist
Dan­ny Abebe
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Han­nah G. Solomon Dared to Make a Difference
Bon­nie Lindauer
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A Rashomon of the Raid

Mitch Gins­burg
October 25, 2021
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Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel: A Life of Rad­i­cal Amazement
Julian E. Zelizer
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Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture: A Very Short Introduction
Ilan Sta­vans
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Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald
Carole Angier
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When Anti­semitism Came to Venezuela

Moisés Naím
October 6, 2021
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Sephar­di: Cook­ing the His­to­ry. Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Dias­po­ra, from the 13th Cen­tu­ry to Today
Hélène Jawhara Piñer
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Find­ing the Lost Café Schindler

Meriel Schindler
September 27, 2021
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