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    Asperg­er’s Chil­dren: The Ori­gins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    Edith Shef­fer
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    Galantiere: The Lost Gen­er­a­tion’s For­got­ten Man
    Mark Lurie
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    He Could Make Words Sing: An Ordi­nary Man Dur­ing Extra­or­di­nary Times
    David Greene
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    Glo­ri­a’s Voice: The Sto­ry of Glo­ria Steinem
    Aura Lewis
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    A Sur­vivor’s Duty
    Gabriel Laufer
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    Kafka’s Last Tri­al: The Case of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
    Ben­jamin Balint
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    Lil­lian Wald: Amer­i­ca’s Great Social and Health­care Reformer
    Paul M. Kaplan
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    Among the Reeds: The True Sto­ry of How a Fam­i­ly Sur­vived the Holocaust
    Tam­my Bottner
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    Eli’s Sto­ry: A Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Jew­ish Life
    Meri-Jane Rochel­son
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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
    Essay

    The For­got­ten Jew­ish Ele­ment of the Wom­en’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement

    Joyce Antler
    March 7, 2018
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    Jew­ish Rad­i­cal Fem­i­nism: Voic­es from the Women’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement
    Joyce Antler
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    Black Pow­er, Jew­ish Pol­i­tics: Rein­vent­ing the Alliance in the 1960s
    Marc Dollinger
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    Rein­vent­ing the Black-Jew­ish Alliance of the 1960s

    Marc Dollinger
    February 26, 2018
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    Maybe Esther: A Fam­i­ly Story
    Katja Petrowskaja;‎ Shelley Frisch, trans.
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