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    Biography

    Cover of Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments
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    For­give­ness: The Sto­ry of Eva Kor, Sur­vivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments
    Joe Lee
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    Albert Ein­stein: Genius of Space and Time! (Show Me History!)
    Mark Shulman, Kelly Tindall (Illustrator)
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    The Dress­mak­ers of Auschwitz: The True Sto­ry of the Women Who Sewed to Survive 
    Lucy Adling­ton
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    The Rab­bi and the Painter
    Shoshona Weiss, Jennifer Kirkham (Illustrator)
    Cover of The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century
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    The Baron: Mau­rice de Hirsch and the Jew­ish Nine­teenth Century
    Matthias B. Lehmann
    Cover of It's My Whole Life: Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding During World War II
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    It’s My Whole Life: Char­lotte Salomon: An Artist in Hid­ing Dur­ing World War II
    Susan Wider
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    The Van­ished Collection
    Pauline Baer de Perignon; Natasha Lehrer, trans.
    Cover of The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival
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    The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Pow­er­ful True Sto­ry of Hope and Survival
    Thomas Geve
    Cover of The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City
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    The New York­ers: 31 Remark­able Peo­ple, 400 Years, and the Untold Biog­ra­phy of the World’s Great­est City
    Sam Roberts
    Cover of A Queen to the Rescue: The Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
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    A Queen to the Res­cue: The Sto­ry of Hen­ri­et­ta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
    Nancy Churnin, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
    Cover of Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical
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    Meir Kahane: The Pub­lic Life and Polit­i­cal Thought of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Radical
    Shaul Magid
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Christ­mas Mitzvah
    Jeff Gottes­feld
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    The Naz­i’s Grand­daugh­ter: How I Dis­cov­ered My Grand­fa­ther Was a War Criminal
    Sil­via Foti
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    Into the For­est: A Holo­caust Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Tri­umph, and Love
    Rebec­ca Frankel
    Essay

    On Trans­lat­ing Irène Némirovsky

    San­dra Smith
    November 29, 2021
    Essay

    How Pol­ly Adler, the Jew­ish Jezebel of the Jazz Age, Became a Top­sy-Turvy Amer­i­can Suc­cess Story

    Deb­by Applegate
    November 22, 2021
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