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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
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    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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    Promised Lands: Hadas­sah Kaplan and the Lega­cy of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Women in Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Palestine
    Sharon Ann Musher
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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
    Cover of The Girl with the Secret Name: The Incredible Life of Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi
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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
    Cover of Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
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    Sis­ters in Sci­ence: How Four Women Physi­cists Escaped Nazi Ger­many and Made Sci­en­tif­ic History 
    Olivia Camp­bell
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    Anne Frank as Idea and Inspiration

    Ruth Franklin
    January 24, 2025
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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
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    A Jew in the Street and a Man in Your Tent?: Rab­bini­cal Dress in Vien­na at the Fin de Siècle

    Jonathan C. Kaplan-Wajselbaum
    January 6, 2025
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