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Joe Berger Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Joseph Berger was a New York Times reporter, columnist, and editor. 30-year veteran @NYTimes. Author of Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence,Pious Ones: The World of Hasidim,Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After Holocaust

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Book Cover for: My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir, Meir Shalev

My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir

Meir Shalev
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It tells the story of the author’s maternal grandmother, a plucky socialist pioneer who receives a General Electric model (or “svieeperrr,” as she calls it) from a flourishing American relative, then locks it away, afraid it will get dirty from the ubiquitous dust in her village.

Paperback, 2018

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence, Joseph Berger

Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

Joseph Berger
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The first review calls the biography of Elie Wiesel I “an indispensable touchstone.” In praise (and defense) of Elie Wiesel, who spoke with ‘the aura of a prophet’ https://t.co/9wNPAZGbPV

Hardcover, 2023

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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