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- Conference: New York Metropolitan Area Branch of the Association of Jewish Libraries 2013  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation: "The Holocaust in Yugoslavia: History, Memory and Culture - a Reappraisal." June 2013  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - REV: Rohdewald on Brandon and Lower (eds.) "The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization"  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - REV: Kaplan on Birnbaum "A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV"  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - Women of Reform Judaism Centennial Symposium June 2 New York  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - APT: needed in London  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM> - CFP: Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting New York March 2014  Katherine Aron-Beller <kathybeller8@GMAIL.COM>

Reviewer: Stefan Rohdewald Title: The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization Author: Ray Brandon, Wendy Lower, eds.   Reviewer: Zvi Kaplan Title: A Tale of Ritual Murder in the Age of Louis XIV: The Trial of Raphaël Lévy, 1669 Author: Pierre Birnbaum   Reviewer: Stephen Katz Title: Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature Author: Karen Grumberg

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