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    Cover of Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness
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    Promis­cu­ous: Portnoy’s Com­plaint and Our Doomed Pur­suit of Happiness
    Bernard Avishai
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    Jew­ish Moth­ers: Strength, Wis­dom, Compassion
    Lloyd Wolf and Paula Wolfson; Anne Roiphe, fwd.
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    The Lady in Gold: The Extra­or­di­nary Tale of Gus­tav Klimt’s Mas­ter­piece, Por­trait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
    Anne-Marie O’Connor
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    Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant
    Dyan Cannon
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    A Cen­tu­ry of Wis­dom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Som­mer, the World’s Old­est Liv­ing Holo­caust Survivor
    Caroline Stoessinger
    Cover of Alice's Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
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    Alice’s Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
    Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki; Alice Herz-Sommer, fwd.
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    We Killed: The Rise of Women in Amer­i­can Comedy
    Yael Kohen
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    Fun­ny: The Book: Every­thing You Always Want­ed To Know About Comedy
    David Misch
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    Jew­ish Writ­ing and the Deep Places of the Imagination
    Mark Krupnick; Jean K. Carney; Mark Shechner, eds.
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    Trin­i­ty of Pas­sion: The Lit­er­ary Left and the Antifas­cist Crusade
    Alan M. Wald
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    Will Eis­ner’s New York: Life in the Big City
    Will Eisner
    Cover of The Heebie Jeebies at CBGB: A Secret History of Jewish Punk
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    The Hee­bie Jee­bies at CBGB: A Secret His­to­ry of Jew­ish Punk
    Steven Lee Beeber
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    You Nev­er Call! You Nev­er Write!: A His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Mother
    Joyce Antler
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    Paul Gold­man: Press Pho­tog­ra­ph­er, 1943 – 1961
    Shlomo Arad
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    In Their Own Image: New York Jews in Jazz Age Pop­u­lar Culture
    Ted Mer­win
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    My Grand­par­ents, My Par­ents and I: Jew­ish Art and Culture
    Edward van Voolen
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