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    Cover of No Steps Behind: Beate Sirota Gordon’s Battle for Women’s Rights in Japan
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    No Steps Behind: Beate Siro­ta Gordon’s Bat­tle for Women’s Rights in Japan
    Jeff Gottesfeld, Shiella Witanto (illus.)
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    Excerpt: The Convert

    Ste­fan Hertmans
    April 28, 2020
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    Mar­tin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent
    Paul Mendes-Flohr
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    Judah Touro Didn’t Want to Be Famous
    Audrey Ades, Vivien Mildenberger (illus.)
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    Albert Ein­stein and the Poet­ry of Real
    Manuel Garcia Iglesias, Marwan Kahil (illus.)
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    Ruth Objects: The Life of Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
    Doreen Rappaport, Eric Velasquez (illus.)
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    Par­rots, Pugs, and Pix­ie Dust: A Book About Fash­ion Design­er Judith Leiber
    Deborah Blumenthal, Masha D’Yans (illus.)
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    The Sun and Her Stars: Sal­ka Vier­tel and Hitler’s Exiles in the Gold­en Age of Hollywood
    Don­na Rifkind
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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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    Cit­i­zen 865 
    Deb­bie Cenziper
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    Irv­ing Berlin: New York Genius
    James Kaplan
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    Dis­senter on the Bench: Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Life and Work
    Vic­to­ria Ortiz
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    ‘Depth and Lumi­nos­i­ty’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with David Kassan

    Saman­tha Baskind
    February 4, 2020
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    Genius & Anxiety
    Nor­man Lebrecht
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    The City of Light
    Theodore Bikel, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, Noah Phillips (illus.)  
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    Albert Mar­rin
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