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MBybee

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An eclectic reader focused largely on sci-fi/adventure from the 19th and 20th century

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2025 Reading Goal

38% complete! MBybee has read 38 of 100 books.

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America Deported Her for Publishing a Book Titled ‘Lesbian Love.’ Years Later, She Was Murdered by the Nazis for Being Jewish

Eve Adams, an immigrant and the proprietor of a 1920s lesbian tearoom, was imprisoned for disorderly conduct and obscenity, then sent back to Europe, where she became a target of the Holocaust

By Kellie B. Gormly

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/america-deported-her-for-publishing-a-book-titled-lesbian-love-years-later-she-was-murdered-by-the-nazis-for-being-jewish-180986864/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Jewish women - Fiction at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/7743