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    Biography

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    First the Patient: The Life and Times of David G. Nathan, MD
    Bar­rett Rollins
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    Giant Love: Edna Fer­ber, Her Best-sell­ing Nov­el of Texas, and the Mak­ing of a Clas­sic Amer­i­can Film
    Julie Gilbert
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    Sha­la­ma: My 96 Sea­sons in China
    Jean Hoff­mann Lewanda
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    Jason Belongs
    Jason Schachter McKinney
    Cover of A German Jew's Triumph: Fritz Oppenheimer and the Denazification of Germany
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    A Ger­man Jew­’s Tri­umph: Fritz Oppen­heimer and the Denaz­i­fi­ca­tion of Germany
    Cindy Schwe­ich Handler
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    Two Wheels to Free­dom: The Sto­ry of a Young Jew, Wartime Resis­tance, and a Dar­ing Escape
    Arthur J. Magida
    Essay

    Two Pieces of Choco­late: Pre­serv­ing Sto­ries of the Holocaust

    Kathy Kac­er
    August 28, 2024
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    The Ein­stein Effect: How the World’s Favorite Genius Got into Our Cars, Our Bath­rooms, and Our Minds
    Benyamin Cohen
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    The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Child­hood for All of Us
    Rachelle Berg­stein
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    Insep­a­ra­ble: A Holo­caust Sur­vival Story
    Faris Cas­sell
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    Ping-Pong Shab­bat: The True Sto­ry of Cham­pi­on Estee Ackerman
    Ann D. Koffsky; Abigail Rajunov, illus.
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    Chaim Weiz­mann: A Biography
    Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani; Haim Watzman, trans.
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    Amaz­ing Abe: How Abra­ham Cahan’s News­pa­per Gave a Voice to Jew­ish Immigrants
    Norman H. Finkelstein; Vesper Stamper, illus.
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    The Ein­stein of Sex: Dr. Mag­nus Hirschfeld, the Vision­ary of Weimar Berlin
    Daniel Brook
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    Mom­my, Can Boys Also Be Doc­tors?: Mes­sage To Young Sci­en­tists And Oth­er Humans
    Mar­lene Belfort
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    That Voice: In Search of Ann Drum­mond-Grant, the Singer Who Shaped My Life
    Mar­cia Menter
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