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Cover of Barbra Streisand: A Little Golden Book Biography

Barbra Streisand: A Little Golden Book Biography

Judy Katschke; Brenna Vaughan, illus.

Cover of Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

Cover of Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words

Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words

Cover of Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer

Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer

Richard Bernstein

Essay

Giant Love, Edna Ferber, and Her Jewish Convictions

Julie Gilbert

November 25, 2024

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Cover of Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah

Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah

Cover of When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy

When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy

David Margolick

Cover of One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport

One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the Prague Kindertransport

Cover of Salinger's Soul: His Personal & Religious Odyssey

Salinger’s Soul: His Personal & Religious Odyssey

Stephen B. Shepard

Cover of Days of Memory: Listening to Jewish Italians Who Lived Through Fascism and the Holocaust

Days of Memory: Listening to Jewish Italians Who Lived Through Fascism and the Holocaust

Judith Monachina

Cover of Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA

Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA

Tanya Lee Stone; Gretchen Ellen Powers, illus.

Cover of Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned

Henri Bendel and the Worlds He Fashioned

Cover of First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian

First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America’s First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian

Grace Kessler Overbeke

Essay

Bringing the Holocaust to the Foreground

Arthur J. Magida

September 6, 2024

Cover of Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film