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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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    Irv­ing Berlin: New York Genius
    James Kaplan
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    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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    Genius & Anxiety
    Nor­man Lebrecht
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    The City of Light
    Theodore Bikel, Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, Noah Phillips (illus.)  
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    A Light in the Dark­ness: Janusz Kor­czak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
    Albert Mar­rin
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    Becom­ing RBG: Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg’s Jour­ney to Justice
    Debbie Levy (auth.), Whitney Gardner (illus.)  
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    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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    Fac­ing Survival
    David Kas­san
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    Visu­al Arts
    Judith Kerr: The Illustrators 
    Joan­na Carey
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    A State at Any Cost
    Tom Segev
    Essay

    The Speed of Thought: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Maria Tumarkin

    Dalia Wolf­son
    December 9, 2019
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    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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