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    Bri­an Abrams
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    Eliz­a­beth L. Fox
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    Left to the Mer­cy of a Rude Stream: The Bar­gain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother
    Stan­ley Goldman
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    Rac­ing Against His­to­ry: The 1940 Cam­paign for a Jew­ish Army to Fight Hitler
    Rick Rich­man
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    Rebec­ca Erbelding
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    Ran­di Hut­ter Epstein
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    Pres­i­dent Carter: The White House Years
    Stu­art E. Eizenstat
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    The Sev­en, A Fam­i­ly Holo­caust Story
    Ellen G. Friedman
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    Steven R. Weisman
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    Touch­ing on Place: Archi­tec­tur­al Ele­ments in Israel
    Chaim Beza­lel
    Yon­nah Ben Levy
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    Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker
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    Sav­ing Mona Lisa: The Bat­tle to Pro­tect the Lou­vre and its Trea­sures from the Nazis
    Ger­ri Chanel
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    Seduced by Mrs. Robin­son: How ​“The Grad­u­ate” Became the Touch­stone of a Generation
    Bev­er­ly Gray
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    The First Egal­i­tar­i­an Minyan?

    Shari Rabin
    March 27, 2018
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    Dreams of Re-Cre­ation in Jamaica: The Holo­caust, Intern­ment, Jew­ish Refugees in Gibral­tar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim
    Diana Cooper-Clark
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    The For­got­ten Jew­ish Ele­ment of the Wom­en’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement

    Joyce Antler
    March 7, 2018
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