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    Ire­na’s Children
    Tilar Mazzeo
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Tree in the Courtyard
    Jeff Gottesfeld, illustrated by Peter McCarty
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    The Peo­ple and the Books
    Adam Kirsch
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    Escape to Vir­ginia: From Nazi Ger­many to Thalhimer’s Farm
    Robert H. Gillette
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    Stars in the Ring
    Mike Sil­ver
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    The Nazi Hunters
    Andrew Nagors­ki
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    The Salome Ensemble
    Alan Robert Ginsberg
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    The Dev­il’s Diary
    Robert K. Wittman and David Kinney
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    Zion­ism: The Birth and Trans­for­ma­tion of an Ideal
    Mil­ton Viorst
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    On the Ori­gins of Sports
    Gary Belsky and Neil Fine
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    Black Square
    Sophie Pinkham
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    1915 Diary of S. A. An-sky: A Russ­ian Jew­ish Writer at the East­ern Front
    S. A. An-sky; Polly Zavadivker, trans.
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    The Secret Faith of Maestre Hon­o­ra­tus: Pro­fayt Duran and Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Late Medieval Iberia
    Maud Kozodoy
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    Before Pearl Harbor

    Kim Brooks is the author of The House­guest: A Nov­el, out tomor­row from Coun­ter­point Press. She is blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series…
    Kim Brooks
    April 11, 2016
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    Hell Before Their Very Eyes: Amer­i­can Sol­diers Lib­er­ate Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, April 1945
    John C. McManus
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: A Pri­ma­ry Source Reader
    Gary Phillip Zola (Editor), Marc Dollinger (Editor)
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