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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
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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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    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)
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    The Baron: Mau­rice de Hirsch and the Jew­ish Nine­teenth Century
    Matthias B. Lehmann
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    The Van­ished Collection
    Pauline Baer de Perignon; Natasha Lehrer, trans.
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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 Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Pow­er­ful True Sto­ry of Hope and Survival
    Thomas Geve
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    The New York­ers: 31 Remark­able Peo­ple, 400 Years, and the Untold Biog­ra­phy of the World’s Great­est City
    Sam Roberts
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    A Queen to the Res­cue: The Sto­ry of Hen­ri­et­ta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
    Nancy Churnin, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
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    Shaul Magid
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