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    Pro­fes­sor of Apoc­a­lypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes
    Jer­ry Z. Muller
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    Rebecca Kobrin
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    Zabar’s: A Fam­i­ly Sto­ry, with Recipes
    Lori Zabar
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    Escape from the Ghet­to: A Sto­ry of Sur­vival and Resilience in World War II
    John Carr
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    Helmi’s Shad­ow: A Jour­ney of Sur­vival From Rus­sia to East Asia to the Amer­i­can West
    David Hor­gan
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    Rahel Varn­hagen: The Life of a Jew­ish Woman
    Hannah Arendt; Clara Winston and Richard Winston, trans.
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    Trac­ing Helmi’s Jour­ney: From Japan to the US

    David Hor­gan
    May 16, 2022
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    You Are a Star, Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
    Dean Robbins, Sarah Green (Illustrator)
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    Admi­ral Hyman Rick­over: Engi­neer of Power
    Marc Wortman
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    Frank, Who Liked to Build: The Archi­tec­ture of Frank Gehry
    Deborah Blumenthal, Maria Brzozowska (Illustrator)
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    Look­ing for Ali­cia: The Unfin­ished Life of an Argen­tin­ian Rebel
    Marc Raboy
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    George Soros: A Life In Full
    Peter Osnos (Editor)
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    Arthur Szyk Pre­served: Insti­tu­tion­al Col­lec­tions of Orig­i­nal Art
    Irvin Ungar and Samantha Lyons, eds.; 
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    Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
    Mat­ti Friedman
    Cover of Titan of Tehran: From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad–My Grandfather's Life
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    Titan of Tehran: From Jew­ish Ghet­to to Cor­po­rate Colos­sus to Fir­ing Squad – My Grand­fa­ther’s Life
    Shahrzad Elghanayan
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    Years of Glo­ry: Nel­ly Benatar and the Pur­suit of Jus­tice in Wartime North Africa
    Susan Gilson Miller
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