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Biography

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The Beau­ty of Things: A Family’s Fight for Sur­vival Dur­ing the Holocaust

Ari­ana Neumann
February 17, 2020
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Non­fic­tion
Cit­i­zen 865 
Deb­bie Cenziper
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Non­fic­tion
Irv­ing Berlin: New York Genius
James Kaplan
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Fic­tion
Dis­senter on the Bench: Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Life and Work
Vic­to­ria Ortiz
Interview

‘Depth and Lumi­nos­i­ty’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with David Kassan

Saman­tha Baskind
February 4, 2020
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Non­fic­tion
Genius & Anxiety
Nor­man Lebrecht
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Chil­dren’s
The City of Light
Theodore Bikel, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, Noah Phillips (illus.)  
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Chil­dren’s
A Light in the Dark­ness: Janusz Kor­czak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
Albert Mar­rin
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Chil­dren’s
Becom­ing RBG: Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Jour­ney to Justice
Debbie Levy (auth.), Whitney Gardner (illus.)  
Essay

On the Trail of Cora Wilburn

Jonathan D. Sarna
January 20, 2020
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Andrea Dworkin: The Fem­i­nist as Revolutionary
Martin Duberman
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Visu­al Arts
Fac­ing Survival
David Kas­san
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Visu­al Arts
Judith Kerr: The Illustrators 
Joan­na Carey
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Non­fic­tion
A State at Any Cost
Tom Segev
From the Journal

Beyond the Shad­ows: The Holo­caust and the Dan­ish Exception

Judy Glick­man Lauder, Elie Wiesel , Michael Beren­baum, Judith S. Goldstein 
December 9, 2019
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The Speed of Thought: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Maria Tumarkin

Dalia Wolf­son
December 9, 2019
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