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    Gal Gadot: Sol­dier, Mod­el, Won­der Woman
    Jill Sherman
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    What You Did Not Tell: A Russ­ian Past and the Jour­ney Home
    Mark Mazower
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    God Bless Amer­i­ca: The Sto­ry of an Immi­grant Named Irv­ing Berlin
    Adah Nuchi; Rob Polivka, illus.
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    Regi­na Per­sist­ed: An Untold Story
    Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Margeaux Lucas, illus.
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    No Truth With­out Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
    Kathleen Krull; Nancy Zhang, illus.
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    Rush: Rev­o­lu­tion, Mad­ness, and Ben­jamin Rush, the Vision­ary Doc­tor Who Became a Found­ing Father
    Stephen Fried
    Essay

    Get­ting to Know Sophie Tucker

    Lau­ren Rebec­ca Sklaroff
    May 3, 2018
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    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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    Joe’s Mar­ket: A Sto­ry About How One Man Changed His Community
    Ilana Danneman; Debra Sifen, illus.
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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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    Tam­my Bottner
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