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Bob Marshall
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Squirrel Hill
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Rabbi Sabato Morais
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This Is Your Song Too Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity
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Where Is Anne Frank
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The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
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Here We Are All Jews
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Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
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Portrait of an American Rabbi: in His Own Words
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And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality **Autographed**
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The Jews of Summer ***Autographed***
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Unbreakable
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Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
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Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing *Autographed Copy*
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Martin Luther King The Peaceful Warrior
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The Ivy Hero: The Brave Life of Sergeant William Shemin
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Pink Triangle Legacies
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Einstein
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Jerome Robbins
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Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
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Zabar's: A Family Story, with Recipes
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Renegade Women In Film & TV
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Walk this Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes
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Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. ...
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