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‘Ves­sels for Per­son­al His­to­ry’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Michael W. Twit­ty, Shaunna J. Edwards, and Alyson Richman

Lau­ra Arnold Leibman
February 24, 2023
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In the Gar­den of the Right­eous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews Dur­ing the Holocaust 
Richard Hurowitz
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Poet­ry, Exper­i­ments with Yid­dish, Grief, and New Facts: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Ire­na Klepfisz

Julie R. Enszer 
January 2, 2023
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Salt & Hon­ey: Jew­ish Teens on Fem­i­nism, Cre­ativ­i­ty, and Tradition 
Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib.
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Excerpt: The New Yorkers

Sam Roberts
December 19, 2022
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Shan­da: A Mem­oir of Shame and Secrecy
Let­ty Cot­tin Pogrebin
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World 
Jonathan Freed­land
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On Repen­tance And Repair: Mak­ing Amends in an Unapolo­getic World
Danya Rut­ten­berg
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“Nice” Jew­ish Girls
Julia Merberg; Georgia Rucker, illus.
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Blacks and Jews in Amer­i­ca: An Invi­ta­tion to Dialogue
Terrence L. Johnson; Jacques Berlinerblau
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Fear and Oth­er Stories
Chana Blankshteyn, Anita Norch (Translator)
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Lily’s Promise: Hold­ing On to Hope Through Auschwitz and Beyond―A Sto­ry for All Generations
Lily Ebert, Dov Forman
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It Could Hap­pen Here: Why Amer­i­ca Is Tip­ping From Hate To The Unthink­able And How We Can Stop It 
Jonathan Green­blatt
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The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Dis­abled, Zionist
Sarah Imhoff
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Queer­ing Anti-Zion­ism: Aca­d­e­m­ic Free­dom, LGBTQ Intel­lec­tu­als, and Israel/​Palestine Cam­pus Activism
Corinne E. Blackmer
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