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Kapus­ta: Veg­etable-For­ward Recipes from East­ern Europe
Alis­sa Timoshkina
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Excerpt — Kapus­ta: Veg­etable-For­ward Recipes from East­ern Europe

Alis­sa Timoshkina
March 10, 2025
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A Place to Hide
Ronald H. Balson
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The Piano Play­er of Budapest: A True Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Hope, and Music
Rox­anne de Bastion 
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Peg­gy
Rebecca Godfrey with Leslie Jamison
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Chil­dren’s
Baila the Klopper
Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod; Shirley Waisman, illus.
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Excerpt — Ein­stein in Kafka­land: How Albert Fell Down the Rab­bit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

Ken Krim­stein
August 19, 2024
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How the West Became Anti­se­mit­ic: Jews and the For­ma­tion of Europe, 800‑1500
Ivan G. Marcus
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Char­lotte Salomon’s Indeli­ble Legacy

Susan Wider
January 1, 2024
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The Rye Bread Mar­riage: How I Found Hap­pi­ness with a Part­ner I’ll Nev­er Understand
Michaele Weiss­man
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Max’s War: The Sto­ry of a Ritchie Boy
Lib­by Fis­ch­er Hellmann
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The Fight of Their Lives: A 21st Cen­tu­ry Primer on World War II
Andy Kut­ler
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Schlemiel Comes to America
Jane Yolen; Óscar Perez, illus.
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Good­bye, East­ern Europe: An Inti­mate His­to­ry of a Divid­ed Land
Jacob Mikanows­ki
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The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pan­demics from the Bible to COVID-19
Jere­my Brown
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Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust
Neal Shusterman; Andrés Vera Martínez, illus.
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