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Life Must Go On: The Remark­able Sto­ry of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghet­to, and the Trag­ic Fate of Lithua­ni­a’s Jews
Bea Lurie
Nonfiction
Promised Lands: Hadas­sah Kaplan and the Lega­cy of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Women in Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Palestine
Sharon Ann Musher
Children's
Jel­la Lep­man and Her Library of Dreams: The Woman Who Res­cued a Gen­er­a­tion of Chil­dren and Found­ed the World’s Largest Children’s Library
Kather­ine Pater­son ; Sal­ly Deng , illus.
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A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
Robert Hilburn
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Emi­nent Jews: Bern­stein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer
David Den­by
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Abra­ham: The First Jew
Antho­ny Julius
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The Girl with the Secret Name: The Incred­i­ble Life of Doña Gra­cia Mendes Nasi
Yael Zoldan
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Two Sis­ters: Betray­al, Love, and Resis­tance in Wartime France
Rosie White­house
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A Mitz­vah for George Washington
Rachelle Burk ; Chiara Fedele , illus.
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Abzug­lute­ly!: Bat­tling, Bel­low­ing Bel­la Abzug
Sarah Aron­son; Andrea D’Aquino , illus.
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Louis B. May­er and Irv­ing Thal­berg: The Whole Equation
Ken­neth Turan
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Sis­ters in Sci­ence: How Four Women Physi­cists Escaped Nazi Ger­many and Made Sci­en­tif­ic History
Olivia Camp­bell
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
Ruth Franklin
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Chutz­pah Girls: 100 Tales of Dar­ing Jew­ish Women
Julie Sil­ver­stein | Tami Schloss­berg Pruwer
Children's
Twist, Tum­ble, Tri­umph: The Sto­ry of Cham­pi­on Gym­nast Agnes Kelet
Deb­o­rah Bod­in Cohen | Ker­ry Olitzky
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The Piano Play­er of Budapest: A True Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Hope, and Music
Rox­anne de Bastion
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Bar­bra Streisand: A Lit­tle Gold­en Book Biography
Judy Katschke ; Bren­na Vaugh­an , illus.
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Fam­i­ly Romance: John Singer Sar­gent and the Wertheimers
Jean Strouse
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Ira Gersh­win: A Life in Words
Michael Owen
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Only in Amer­i­ca: Al Jol­son and The Jazz Singer
Richard Bern­stein
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