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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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    Last Call at the Hotel Impe­r­i­al: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
    Deb­o­rah Cohen
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    Sears Crosstown in Mem­phis: From Cat­a­logues to a Concourse
    Bill Hal­tom
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    The Only Woman in the Room: Gol­da Meir and Her Path to Power
    Pni­na Lahav
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    Madam: The Biog­ra­phy of Pol­ly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
    Deb­by Applegate
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    Lis­ten, World!: How the Intre­pid Elsie Robin­son Became Amer­i­ca’s Most-Read Woman
    Alli­son Gilbert
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    Shmuel’s Bridge: Fol­low­ing the Tracks to Auschwitz with My Sur­vivor Father
    Jason Som­mer
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    Excerpt: My Father’s Drawing

    Mindy Weisel
    August 23, 2021
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    Allan Gerson
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