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Biography

Cover of My Name is Staszek Surdel: The Improbable Holocaust Survival of Nathan Poremba, The Last Jew of Wieliczka
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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
Cover of Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan that Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich
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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
Cover of We Shall Build Anew: Stephen S. Wise, the Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Reinvention of American Liberal Judaism
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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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Excerpt: My Father’s Drawing

Mindy Weisel
August 23, 2021
Cover of Lies That Matter: A Federal Prosecutor and Child of Holocaust Survivors, Tasked with Stripping US Citizenship from Aged Nazi Collaborators, Finds Himself Caught in the Middle
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Lies That Mat­ter: A Fed­er­al Pros­e­cu­tor and Child of Holo­caust Sur­vivors, Tasked with Strip­ping US Cit­i­zen­ship from Aged Nazi Col­lab­o­ra­tors, Finds Him­self Caught in the Middle
Allan Gerson
Cover of To Repair a Broken World: The Life of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
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To Repair a Bro­ken World: The Life of Hen­ri­et­ta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
Dvora Hacohen
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Nathan’s Song
Leda Schubert, Maya Ish-Shalom (Illustrator)
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‘Invis­i­ble Years’: Piec­ing Togeth­er My Fam­i­ly’s Sto­ry of Survival

Daphne Geis­mar
August 2, 2021
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Thank You, Dr. Salk!: The Sci­en­tist Who Beat Polio and Healed the World 
Dean Robbins, Mike Dutton (Illustrator)
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‘Exiled in Par­adise’: A Con­ver­sa­tion between Alex­is Lan­dau and Don­na Rifkind

Alex­is Landau, Don­na Rifkind
July 21, 2021
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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the Amer­i­can Dream 
Michael Shnayerson
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