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"Toren employs a subtle emphasis to effectively distinguish the occasional direct quote. Her even pacing is admirable, as is her ease with French and German words.-- ""AudioFile"" ""A sober and fair--but devastating--volume."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""In a steady and engaged tone, narrator Suzanne Toren conveys these often grievous accounts...Toren employs a subtle emphasis to effectively distinguish the occasional direct quote. Her even pacing is admirable, as is her ease with French and German words."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""Leff's book is an act of troubling remembrance."" -- ""Washington Post"" ""Particularly timely when immigration, refugees and anti-Semitism are much in the headlines."" -- "" Jewish Week/Times of Israel"" ""The stories she tells of refugee scholars, their allies, and the obstacles they faced within American colleges and universities are important for us to understand."" -- ""Peter Salovey, president of Yale University"""

Toren employs a subtle emphasis to effectively distinguish the occasional direct quote. Her even pacing is admirable, as is her ease with French and German words.-- AudioFile A sober and fair--but devastating--volume. -- Wall Street Journal In a steady and engaged tone, narrator Suzanne Toren conveys these often grievous accounts...Toren employs a subtle emphasis to effectively distinguish the occasional direct quote. Her even pacing is admirable, as is her ease with French and German words. -- AudioFile Leff's book is an act of troubling remembrance. -- Washington Post Particularly timely when immigration, refugees and anti-Semitism are much in the headlines. -- Jewish Week/Times of Israel The stories she tells of refugee scholars, their allies, and the obstacles they faced within American colleges and universities are important for us to understand. -- Peter Salovey, president of Yale University

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Suzanne Toren is an actor who has appeared on and off Broadway, in regional theaters, and occasionally on TV. Over a period of several decades, she has narrated close to 1000 audiobooks for most major publishers. She has received multiple Audie nominations and many industry awards, including Narrator of the Year and Best Voices of the Year. Making beautifully crafted writing come alive is her passion; she is honored and thrilled to have been able to earn a living doing it. Laurel Leff is associate director of the Jewish studies program and associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University. She is the author of Well Worth Saving: American Universities' Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe and Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper.

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