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    Sex vs. Sur­vival: The Life and Ideas of Sabi­na Spielrein
    John Launer
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    Leonard Bern­stein: An Amer­i­can Musician
    Allen Shawn
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    Spin­oza: The Out­cast Thinker
    Devra Lehmann
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    Her­zl’s Vision: Theodor Her­zl and the Foun­da­tion of the Jew­ish State
    Shlomo Avineri; Haim Watzman, trans.
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    A Semi­te
    Denis Guénoun
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    Ben­ny Good­man & Ted­dy Wil­son: Tak­ing the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History
    Lesa Cline-Ransome; James Ransome, illus.
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    Albert Ein­stein: Great Scientist
    Anne Marie Sullivan
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    On a Beam of Light: A Sto­ry of Albert Einstein
    Jennifer Berne
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    Leonard Bern­stein and Amer­i­can Music
    Catherine Reef
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    We Called Him Rab­bi Abra­ham: Lin­coln and Amer­i­can Jew­ry, A Doc­u­men­tary History
    Gary Philip Zola
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    The Down­fall of Abba Hil­lel Sil­ver and the Foun­da­tion of Israel
    Ofer Shiff
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    Jabotin­sky: A Life
    Hillel Halkin
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    War­burg in Rome
    James Carroll
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    David: The Divid­ed Heart
    David Wolpe
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    My Rebbe
    Rab­bi Adin Steinsaltz
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    Dolph Grund­man
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