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    Atten­ton: A Love Story
    Casey Schwartz
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    Why Can’t Moth­er Vote?: Joseph Hanover and the Unfin­ished Busi­ness of Democracy
    Bill Hal­tom
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    No Past Tense: Love and Sur­vival in the Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    D. Z. Stone
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    Jacob and Joseph, Judais­m’s Archi­tects: Birth of the Ego Ideal
    Nathan Moses Szajnberg
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    All the Hor­rors of War: A Jew­ish Girl, a British Doc­tor, and the Lib­er­a­tion of Bergen-Belsen
    Ber­nice Lerner
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    Grow­ing Up Below Sea Lev­el: A Kib­butz Childhood
    Rachel Biale
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    Dri­ving to Tre­blin­ka: A Long Search for a Lost Father
    Diana Wich­tel
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    Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occu­pied Paris
    Arthur J. Magida
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    Hid­den Recipes: A Holo­caust Memoir
    Eva Mor­ei­mi
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    The Mas­ter of the Lad­der: The Life and Teach­ings of Rab­bi Yehu­dah Leib Ashlag
    Yedi­dah Cohen
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    In the Caul­dron: Ter­ror, Ten­sion, and the Amer­i­can Ambas­sador’s Strug­gle to Avoid Pearl Harbor
    Lew Paper
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    The Inevitabil­i­ty of Tragedy: Hen­ry Kissinger and His World
    Bar­ry Gewen
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    Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop
    Tamar Meir (author), Yael Albert (illus.), Noga Applebaum (trans.)
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    Tough Luck: Sid Luck­man, Mur­der, Inc., and the Rise of the Mod­ern NFL
    R. D. Rosen
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    The Brave Cyclist: The True Sto­ry of a Holo­caust Hero
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    Son­tag: Her Life and Work
    Ben­jamin Moser
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