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Bab­ka, Boulou, & Blintzes: Jew­ish Choco­late Recipes from around the World
Michael Lev­en­thal
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Excerpt: My Father’s Drawing

Mindy Weisel
August 23, 2021
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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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Escape From Syr­ia: A Jew­ish Boy’s Sto­ry of Survival
Shira Yehudit Djalilmand
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Chil­dren’s
Escape From Hun­gary: A Jew­ish Family’s Sto­ry of Survival
Nesanel Yoel Safran
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Chil­dren’s
Escape From Bel­gium: A Father and Son’s Sto­ry of Survival
Esther Heller and Renee Worch
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Soles of a Survivor
Nhi Aron­heim
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Out of Hid­ing: A Holo­caust Survivor’s Jour­ney to America
Ruth Gruener
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Nues­tra Améri­ca: My Fam­i­ly in the Ver­ti­go of Translation
Claudio Lomnitz
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Along the Path to ​‘The Unan­swered Letter’

Faris Cas­sell
April 5, 2021
Yom HaShoah
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For­giv­ing Stephen Red­mond: A Kurchenko & Gon­za­lvez Mys­tery — Book Two
A.J. Sidran­sky
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The Peo­ple on the Beach: Jour­neys to Free­dom After the Holocaust
Rosie Whitehouse
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2020 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Winners

JBC Staff
January 27, 2021
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The Last Rose of Shanghai
Weina Dai Randel
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