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The Most Fortunate Unfortunates *autographed bookplate*
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Richard Avedon: What Becomes A Legend Most
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We Stand Divided
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Israel By Daniel Gordis
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Impossible Takes longer
Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price$32.99$32.99 - $32.99Current price $32.9975 Years After Its Creation, Has Israel Fulfilled its Founders’ Dreams? Has Israel lived up to its founders’ vision? Published on the country’s 75t...
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Jewish Heritage Trail of Philadelphia
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The Genius of Israel
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My Name Is Barbra
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Never Alone
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She's a Mensch!
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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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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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Speaking Yiddish to Chickens
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Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
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Distilled: A Memoir
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Good Vibrations
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Reframing Rembrandt
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