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    Cover of Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust
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    Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a For­bid­den Book, and a Search for Life in the Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    Meryl Frank
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    Inti­mate Strangers: A His­to­ry of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome
    Fredric Brand­fon
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    The Women of Roth­schild: The Untold Sto­ry of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty
    Natal­ie Livingstone
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    Britain’s Jews: Con­fi­dence, Matu­ri­ty, Anxiety
    Har­ry Freedman
    Cover of Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe
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    Diary of a Black Jew­ish Mes­si­ah: The Six­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Jour­ney of David Reubeni through Africa, the Mid­dle East, and Europe 
    Alan Ver­skin
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    The Promise of Lib­er­ty: A Passover Haggada
    Stu­art Halpern
    Jacob Kupi­et­zky
    Cover of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms
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    Speak­ing Yid­dish to Chick­ens: Holo­caust Sur­vivors on South Jer­sey Poul­try Farms
    Seth Stern
    Essay

    Jews of the Span­ish Home­land: Find­ing My Sephardic Fam­i­ly in a 1929 Film

    Eliz­a­beth Graver
    April 10, 2023
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    Impos­si­ble Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Cre­ation, Has Israel Ful­filled Its Founders’ Dreams?
    Daniel Gordis
    Cover of Between the Wires: The Janowska Camp and the Holocaust in Lviv
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    Between the Wires: The Janows­ka Camp and the Holo­caust in Lviv
    Wait­man Wade Beorn
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    Rose Spoke Out: The Sto­ry of Rose Schneiderman
    Emma Carlson Berne; Giovanni Abeille, illus.
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    The Mir­a­cle Seed
    Mar­tin Lemelman
    Cover of The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
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    The Shama­ma Case: Con­test­ing Cit­i­zen­ship across the Mod­ern Mediterranean
    Jes­si­ca M. Marglin
    Cover of The Diary Keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
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    The Diary Keep­ers: World War II in the Nether­lands, as Writ­ten by the Peo­ple Who Lived Through It 
    Nina Sie­gal
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    Mai­monides: Faith in Reason
    Alber­to Manguel
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    A Haunt­ed Judge Keeps His Promise

    Mar­tin J. Siegel
    March 13, 2023
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