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    Biography

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    Pri­mo Levi: The Mat­ter of a Life
    Berel Lang
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    Bernard Beren­son: A Life in the Pic­ture Trade
    Rachel Cohen
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    Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
    Claudia Roth Pierpont
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    Mai­monides: Life and Thought
    Moshe Halbertal
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    Anne Frank: The Biography
    Melissa Müller; Rita & Robert Kimber, trans.
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    Nor­man Mail­er: A Dou­ble Life
    J. Michael Lennon
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    Kaf­ka: The Years of Insight
    Reiner Stach; Shelley Frisch, trans.
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    Super Boys: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of Jer­ry Siegel and Joe Shus­ter – The Cre­ators of Superman
    Brad Ricca
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    Anne Frank’s Chest­nut Tree
    Jane Kohuth; Elizabeth Sayles, illus.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Anne Frank: A Light in the Dark
    Tamara Leigh Hollingsworth
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    Louis Mar­shall and the Rise of Jew­ish Eth­nic­i­ty in Amer­i­ca: A Biography
    M. M. Silver
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    The Fam­i­ly: Three Jour­neys into the Heart of the Twen­ti­eth Century
    David Laskin
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    The Rise of Abra­ham Cahan
    Seth Lip­sky
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    The Genius: Eli­jah of Vil­na and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Judaism
    Eliyahu Stern
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