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Book Title: Goose Girl, the Rabbi, and the NY Teachers : a Family Memoir
Item Length: 9in.
Item Height: 0.6in.
Item Width: 6in.
Author: Deborah Heller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Personal Memoirs, Historical, Jewish
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 16.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 214 Pages
