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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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    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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    The Joe Shus­ter Sto­ry: The Artist Behind Superman
    Julian Voloj
    Thomas Campi
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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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    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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    Pres­i­dent Carter: The White House Years
    Stu­art E. Eizenstat
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    He Could Make Words Sing: An Ordi­nary Man Dur­ing Extra­or­di­nary Times
    David Greene
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    Lau­ren Rebec­ca Sklaroff
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