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    Biography

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    The Lit­tle Gate-Crasher
    Gabrielle Kaplan-May­er
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    Rab­bi Aki­va: Sage of the Talmud
    Barry W. Holtz
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    Who Will Lead Us?: The Sto­ry of Five Hasidic Dynas­ties in America
    Samuel C. Heilman
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    Last Man Standing
    James Curtis
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    Gertrude Weil: Jew­ish Pro­gres­sive in the New South
    Leonard Rogoff
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    Life With An Accent: One Immigrant’s Quest to Belong
    Marilyn Gottlieb
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    The Biog­ra­ph­er and the Architect

    Ear­li­er this week, Wendy Less­er wrote about Louis Kahn’s Jew­ish iden­ti­ty why she chose to write You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Wendy is guest blog­ging for the…
    Wendy Less­er
    March 24, 2017
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    Influ­en­tial Women: Anne Frank
    Peggy J. Parks
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    Chil­dren’s
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    Corrine Maier; Anne Simon, illus.
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    How Jew­ish Was Louis Kahn?

    Ear­li­er this week, Wendy Less­er wrote about why she chose to write You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn. Wendy is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as…
    Wendy Less­er
    March 22, 2017
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    The Man Who Knew
    Sebastian Mallaby
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    Hay­im Nah­man Bia­lik: Poet of Hebrew
    Avner Holzman
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    Why I Wrote ​‘You Say to Brick’

    Wendy Less­er
    March 20, 2017
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    You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn
    Wendy Less­er
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    Mar­tin Gang

    Glenn Frankel
    February 10, 2017
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    Yitzhak Rabin: Sol­dier, Leader, Statesman
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