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    Chil­dren’s
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    Corrine Maier; Anne Simon, illus.
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    The Man Who Knew
    Sebastian Mallaby
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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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    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
    Essay

    Mar­tin Gang

    Glenn Frankel
    February 10, 2017
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    Yitzhak Rabin: Sol­dier, Leader, Statesman
    Itamar Rabinovich
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    Stranger in a Strange Land: Search­ing for Ger­shom Scholem and Jerusalem
    George Prochnik
    Essay

    Dore Schary

    Glenn Frankel
    February 8, 2017
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    The War­burgs
    Ron Chernow
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    A Poem for Peter: The Sto­ry of Ezra Jack Keats and the Cre­ation of The Snowy Day
    Andrea Davis Pinkney; Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, illus.
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    The Némirovsky Question
    Susan Rubin Suleiman
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    In the Darkroom
    Susan Faludi
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    The Rab­bi’s Athe­ist Daughter
    Bon­nie S. Anderson
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    Ire­na’s Chil­dren: A True Sto­ry of Courage
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