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Noth­ing Could Stop Her: The Coura­geous Life of Ruth Gruber
Rona Arato; Isabel Muñoz, illus.
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Pro­fes­sor Schif­f’s Guilt
Agur Schiff; Jessica Cohen, trans.
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The Rel­e­vance of Ruth to Shavuot

Ilana Pardes
May 19, 2023
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Speak­ing Yid­dish to Chick­ens: Holo­caust Sur­vivors on South Jer­sey Poul­try Farms
Seth Stern
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Night Angels
Weina Dai Randel
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The Dif­fer­ences Between Us

Arman­do Lucas Correa
January 9, 2023
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The Vil­lage Idiot
Steve Stern
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Helmi’s Shad­ow: A Jour­ney of Sur­vival From Rus­sia to East Asia to the Amer­i­can West
David Hor­gan
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The Loss of Tía Fortuna’s Pink Casita: Writ­ing a Sephardic Pic­ture Book

Ruth Behar
June 13, 2022
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The Jews Should Keep Qui­et: Franklin D. Roo­sevelt, Rab­bi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
Rafael Medoff
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Years of Glo­ry: Nel­ly Benatar and the Pur­suit of Jus­tice in Wartime North Africa
Susan Gilson Miller
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The Shel­ter and the Fence: When 982 Holo­caust Refugees Found Safe Haven in America
Norman H. Finkelstein
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Paris, 1939

Meg Waite Clayton
October 25, 2021
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37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939
Bar­bara Krasner
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Daugh­ter of His­to­ry: Traces of an Immi­grant Girlhood
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