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Chil­dren’s
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 Vil­lage Idiot
Steve Stern
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JBC Book­shelf: Win­ter 2023

Kyra Lisse
December 2, 2022
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Tears Over Rus­sia: A Search for Fam­i­ly and the Lega­cy of Ukraine’s Pogroms
Lisa Brahin
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Fear and Oth­er Stories
Chana Blankshteyn, Anita Norch (Translator)
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Excerpt — Zabar’s: A Fam­i­ly Sto­ry, With Recipes

Lori Zabar
April 25, 2022
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My Fine Fel­low: A Deli­cious Entanglement
Jen­nieke Cohen
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When the World Was Ours
Liz Kessler
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The Lost Café Schindler: One Fam­i­ly, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth
Meriel Schindler
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The Cig­ar Fac­to­ry of Isay Rot­ten­berg: The Hid­den His­to­ry of a Jew­ish Entre­pre­neur in Nazi Germany
Robert Roten­berg
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The Let­ters Project: A Daugh­ter’s Journey
Eleanor Reis­sa
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A Bor­der Town in Poland: A 20th-Cen­tu­ry Memoir
Michael H. Levin
Nora Jean Levin
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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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Hands of Gold: One Man’s Quest to Find the Sil­ver Lin­ing in Misfortune
Roni Rob­bins
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‘Exiled in Par­adise’: A Con­ver­sa­tion between Alex­is Lan­dau and Don­na Rifkind

Alex­is Landau, Don­na Rifkind
July 21, 2021
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