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Biography

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Chil­dren’s
Write On, Irv­ing Berlin!
Leslie Kimmelman;‎ David C. Gardner, illus.
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A Torah Giant: The Intel­lec­tu­al Lega­cy of Rab­bi Dr. Irv­ing (Yitz) Greenberg
Shmuly Yanklowitz, ed.
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Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible
Jane Yolen, Barbara Diamond Goldin; Vali Mintzi, illus.
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The Joe Shus­ter Sto­ry: The Artist Behind Superman
Julian Voloj
Thomas Campi
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Chil­dren of Nazis: The Sons and Daugh­ters of Himm­ler, Göring, Höss, Men­gele, and Oth­ers— Liv­ing with a Father’s Mon­strous Legacy
Tania Cras­ni­an­s­ki
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Wern­er Scholem: A Ger­man Life (Jew­ish Cul­ture and Contexts)
Mirjam Zadoff; Dona Geyer, trans.
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The Man Who Made the Movies: The Mete­oric Rise and Trag­ic Fall of William Fox
Vanda Krefft
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Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker
Lau­ren Rebec­ca Sklaroff
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Among the Reeds: The True Sto­ry of How a Fam­i­ly Sur­vived the Holocaust
Tam­my Bottner
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Chil­dren’s
Glo­ri­a’s Voice: The Sto­ry of Glo­ria Steinem
Aura Lewis
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Famous Father Girl: A Mem­oir of Grow­ing Up Bernstein
Jamie Bern­stein
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Kafka’s Last Tri­al: The Case of a Lit­er­ary Legacy
Ben­jamin Balint
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Galantiere: The Lost Gen­er­a­tion’s For­got­ten Man
Mark Lurie
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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mys­te­ri­ous Euro­pean Show­man Saved Thou­sands of Amer­i­can Babies
Dawn Raf­fel
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The Three Escapes of Han­nah Arendt: A Tyran­ny of Truth
Ken Krim­stein
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Lil­lian Wald: Amer­i­ca’s Great Social and Health­care Reformer
Paul M. Kaplan
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