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Biography

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Shmuel’s Bridge: Fol­low­ing the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Sur­vivor Father
Jason Som­mer
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Mas­ter of the Game: Hen­ry Kissinger and the Art of Mid­dle East Diplomacy
Mar­tin Indyk
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Map­ping The Dark­ness: The Vision­ary Sci­en­tists Who Unlocked the Mys­ter­ies of Sleep
Ken­neth Miller
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From Mis­takes to Mir­a­cles: A Jew­ish Birthmother’s Sto­ry of Redemp­tion, Hope, & Healing
Lori Prashk­er-Thomas
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The Adven­tures of Her­bie Cohen: World’s Great­est Negotiator
Rich Cohen
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My Name is Staszek Sur­del: The Improb­a­ble Holo­caust Sur­vival of Nathan Porem­ba, The Last Jew of Wieliczka
Joel S. Poremba
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A Door­way to Hero­ism: A dec­o­rat­ed Ger­man-Jew­ish sol­dier who became an Amer­i­can hero
W. Jack Romberg
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Get­ting Wis­er: 101 Essen­tial Life Lessons and Inspir­ing Stories
Michael S. Lewis
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Over­ture of Hope: Two Sis­ters’ Dar­ing Plan that Saved Oper­a’s Jew­ish Stars from the Third Reich
Isabel Vin­cent
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Reach: Hard Lessons and Learned Truths from a Life­time in Television
Arthur Smith
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Coco At The Ritz
Gioia Dilib­er­to
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We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jew­ish Insti­tute of Reli­gion, and the Rein­ven­tion of Amer­i­can Lib­er­al Judaism
Shirley Idel­son
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Paths of the Right­eous: Sto­ries of Hero­ism, Human­i­ty and Hope
Ari Mit­tle­man
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Demo­c­ra­t­ic Jus­tice: Felix Frank­furter, the Supreme Court, and the Mak­ing of the Lib­er­al Establishment
Brad Sny­der
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Wiesen­thal
Tom Dugan
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The Lioness of Boston
Emi­ly Franklin
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