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The Pass­port as Home: Com­fort in Rootlessness
Andrei S. Markovits
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Chil­dren’s
Escape From Hun­gary: A Jew­ish Family’s Sto­ry of Survival
Nesanel Yoel Safran
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Let Lib­er­ty Rise!: How America’s School­child­ren Helped Save the Stat­ue of Liberty
Chana Stiefel, Chuck Groenink (Illustrator)
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Excerpt: In Dreams Together

Leslie Fazekas
April 19, 2021
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A Dead­ly Act
Jonathan Dun­sky
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The Auschwitz Detective
Jonathan Dun­sky
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Recipes From Auschwitz: The Sur­vival Sto­ries of Two Hun­gar­i­an Jews
Alex Stern­berg
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Excerpt: Cor­ner People

Esty G. Hayim, Sarah Fried­man
October 19, 2020
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In the Hour of Fate and Danger
Ferenc Andai, Marietta Morry and Lynda Muir (trans.)
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Cook­book
Jew­ish Cui­sine in Hun­gary: A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry with 83 Authen­tic Recipes
Andras Koerner
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Par­rots, Pugs, and Pix­ie Dust: A Book About Fash­ion Design­er Judith Leiber
Deborah Blumenthal, Masha D’Yans (illus.)
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Hid­den Recipes: A Holo­caust Memoir
Eva Mor­ei­mi
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Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop
Tamar Meir (author), Yael Albert (illus.), Noga Applebaum (trans.)
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The Rest­less Hun­gar­i­an: Mod­ernism, Mad­ness, and The Amer­i­can Dream 
Tom Wei­dlinger
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Memen­to Park: A Novel
Mark Sar­vas
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Talk­ing with Debut Nov­el­ist Kim Sherwood

Tes­ta­ment tells the sto­ry of a young woman whose beloved grand­fa­ther dies, trig­ger­ing her quest to find the truth of his past.

Amy Spun­gen
February 26, 2019
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