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Biography

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Ben Hecht: Fight­ing Words, Mov­ing Pictures
Adi­na Hoffman
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The Rest­less Hun­gar­i­an: Mod­ernism, Mad­ness, and The Amer­i­can Dream 
Tom Wei­dlinger
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The Life of Saul Bel­low: Love and Strife, 1965 – 2005
Zachary Leader
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Not Bad for Delancey Street: The Rise of Bil­ly Rose
Mark Cohen
Interview

Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Ariel Burger

JBC Staff
March 4, 2019
Interview

Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Alice Shalvi 

JBC Staff
March 4, 2019
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Mar­tin & Anne: The Kin­dred Spir­its of Dr. Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
Nancy Churnin; Yevgenia Nayberg, illus.
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Excerpt: Hitler’s Pawn

In some pho­tographs he looks like a fright­ened child; in oth­ers he is quite hand­some, almost sul­try, albeit in a boy­ish way. He had large, expres­sive, dark eyes and wore his black hair slicked back in the style of 1930s adolescence.

Stephen Koch
February 26, 2019
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The Faith­ful Spy: Diet­rich Bon­ho­ef­fer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
John Hendrix
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The Woman Who Fought An Empire: Sarah Aaron­sohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
Gre­go­ry Joseph Wallance
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Visu­al Arts
Beyond the Shadows
Judy Glick­man Lauder
Elie Wiesel 
Michael Beren­baum
Judith S. Goldstein 
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When Paul Met Artie: The Sto­ry of Simon & Garfunkel
G. Neri; David Litchfield, illus.
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Hitler’s Pawn: The Boy Assas­sin and the Holocaust
Stephen Koch
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Just Like Rube Gold­berg: The Incred­i­ble True Sto­ry of the Man Behind the Machines
Sarah Aronson; Robert Neubecker, illus.
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Hedy Lamarr: An Incred­i­ble Life
William Roy; Sylvain Dorange, illus.
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The Man Who Lit Lady Lib­er­ty: The Extra­or­di­nary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis
Richard Schwartz
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