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Kün­stlers in Paradise
Cath­leen Schine
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Chil­dren’s
Hold On to Your Music: The Inspir­ing True Sto­ry of the Chil­dren of Willes­den Lane
Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, Emil Sher (Adaptor), Sonia Possentini (Illustrator)
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Lisa of Willes­den Lane: A True Sto­ry of Music and Sur­vival Dur­ing World War II 
Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen, Sarah J. Robbins (Adapter),Olga and Aleksey Ivanov (Illustrator)
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The Pass­port as Home: Com­fort in Rootlessness
Andrei S. Markovits
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Eva and Eve: A Search for My Moth­er’s Lost Child­hood and What a War Left Behind
Julie Metz
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Along the Path to ​‘The Unan­swered Letter’

Faris Cas­sell
April 5, 2021
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The Mur­der of Pro­fes­sor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vien­na Circle
David Edmonds
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Bil­ly Wilder on Assign­ment: Dis­patch­es from Weimar Berlin and Inter­war Vienna
Noah Isen­berg
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JBC Authors at the Table: Jan Eliasberg

Jan Elias­berg
June 16, 2020
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Fre­quen­cy Hop­ping: The Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty of Hedy Lamarr in Children’s Books

Emi­ly Schneider
May 25, 2020
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The City of Light
Theodore Bikel, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, Noah Phillips (illus.)  
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My City of Dreams: A Memoir
Lisa Gru­en­berg
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A Ritchie Boy: A Novel
Lin­da Kass
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You Have to Have Been a Refugee Yourself

Excerpt­ed from Asy­lum: A Sur­vivor’s Flight from Nazi-Occu­pied Vien­na Through Wartime France by Moriz ScheyerI know that I will pro­voke the crit­i­cism in some…
Moriz Schey­er
September 29, 2016

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