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    Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Anti­se­mit­ic Myth
    Mag­da Teter
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    Seder
    Adam Kammerling
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    We Had to Be Brave: Escap­ing the Nazis on the Kindertransport
    Deb­o­rah Hopkinson
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    Rab­bi Leo Baeck: Liv­ing a Reli­gious Imper­a­tive in Trou­bled Times
    Michael A. Meyer
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    Stepchil­dren of the Shtetl: The Des­ti­tute, Dis­abled, and Mad of Jew­ish East­ern Europe, 1800 – 1939
    Natan M. Meir
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    Esther: Pow­er, Fate and Fragili­ty in Exile
    Dr. Erica Brown
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    White Rose
    Kip Wil­son
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    A Bas­ket Full of Figs
    Ori Elon (auth.), Menahem Halberstadt (illus.)  
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    Hanukkah as History

    Emi­ly Schneider
    December 22, 2019
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    The Accu­sa­tion: Blood Libel in an Amer­i­can Town
    Edward Beren­son
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    Tehran Chil­dren: A Holo­caust Refugee Odyssey
    Mikhal Dekel
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    Howard Reich
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    Elie Wiesel: An Extra­or­di­nary Life and Legacy
    Nadine Epstein
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    The For­tu­nate Foàs of Sabbioneta

    Eleanor Foa
    November 4, 2019
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    Shad­ow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mis­sion to Elim­i­nate Syr­i­an Nuclear Power
    Yaakov Katz
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    Josephus’s The Jew­ish War: A Biography
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