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Biography

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The Rad­i­cal Amer­i­can Judaism of Morde­cai M. Kaplan
Mel Scult
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The Pianist: The Extra­or­di­nary True Sto­ry of One Man’s Sur­vival in War­saw, 1939 – 1945
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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Fan­ny von Arn­stein: Daugh­ter of the Enlightenment
Hilde Spiel
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Becom­ing Freud: The Mak­ing of Psychoanalysis
Adam Phillips
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Hele­na Rubin­stein: The Woman Who Invent­ed Beauty
Michèle Fitoussi; Kate Bignold and Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer, trans.
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Anne Frank: Her Life
Marian Hoefnagel
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The Book of Job: A Biography
Mark Larrimore
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The Box­er’s Sto­ry: Fight­ing for My Life in the Nazi Camps
Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris
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Rab­bi Shlo­mo Car­lebach: Life, Mis­sion, and Legacy
Natan Ophir (Offenbacher)
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Wilde in Amer­i­ca: Oscar Wilde and the Inven­tion of Mod­ern Celebrity
David M. Friedman
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Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosen­wald Helped Change African Amer­i­can Education
Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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Ove­ta Culp Hob­by: Colonel, Cab­i­net Mem­ber, Philanthropist
Debra L. Winegarten
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The Impos­si­ble Exile: Ste­fan Zweig at the End of the World
George Prochnik
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Leo Strauss: Man of Peace
Robert Lloyd Howse
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The Fight of Their Lives: How Juan Marichal and John Rose­boro Turned Base­bal­l’s Ugli­est Brawl into a Sto­ry of For­give­ness and Redemption
John Rosen­gren
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Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations
Joanne Lip­man
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