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- Essay Prize Competition in Jewish Philosophy  Dani Rabinowitz [mailto:dani.rabinowitz@some.ox.ac.uk] - Conference: "Holocaust Survivors and Medical Indemnification: Old Entanglements and New Developments," Haifa, May 29, 2012  "Mendelsohn, Adam D" <MendelsohnA@COFC.EDU> - Seeking panelists for NEMLA session on Viennese Jews and the Christian Question  "Mendelsohn, Adam D" <MendelsohnA@COFC.EDU> - CFP: "Judeo-Moroccan Memory: An Intellectual, Cultural and Political Heritage," Ifrane, Morocco, December 2012  "Mendelsohn, Adam D" <MendelsohnA@COFC.EDU> - REV: Feinstein on Cohen, 'In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order'  "Mendelsohn, Adam D" <MendelsohnA@COFC.EDU> - Gandhi and the Holocaust  Mira Binford [mailto:mirabin@comcast.net] - Apartment for rent in Jerusalem  Leon Wiener Dow [mailto:leonwd1@gmail.com]

Reviewer: Margarete Myers Feinstein Title: In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order Author: Gerald Daniel Cohen   Reviewer: Valerie Thaler Title: The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism: The Menorah Association and American Diversity Author: Daniel Greene   Reviewer: Justine Pas Title: Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland: An Anthology Author: Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi, ed.

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