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    Albert Ein­stein: Great Scientist
    Anne Marie Sullivan
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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 Schayes and the Rise of Pro­fes­sion­al Basketball
    Dolph Grund­man
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    From Brook­lyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn Uni­ver­si­ty Track Coach Mel Rosen
    Craig Darch
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    Stel­la! The Moth­er of Mod­ern Acting
    Sheana Ochoa, forward by Mark Ruffalo
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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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    The Rad­i­cal Amer­i­can Judaism of Morde­cai M. Kaplan
    Mel Scult
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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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    Marian Hoefnagel
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