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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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    Seltzer­topia: The Extra­or­di­nary Sto­ry of an Ordi­nary Drink
    Bar­ry Joseph
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    The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mys­te­ri­ous Euro­pean Show­man Saved Thou­sands of Amer­i­can Babies
    Dawn Raf­fel
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    Shari Rabin
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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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    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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    Omer Bar­tov
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    The Great Shift: Encoun­ter­ing God in Bib­li­cal Times
    James L. Kugel
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