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    The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebel­lious Rothschild
    Hannah Rothschild
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    Strip­ping Gyp­sy: The Life of Gyp­sy Rose Lee
    Noralee Frankel
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    The Smartest Woman I Know
    Ilene Beck­er­man
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    Birth Cer­tifi­cate: The Sto­ry of Dani­lo Kis
    Mark Thompson
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    A Poet­ics of Trau­ma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch
    Ilana Szobel
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    The For­got­ten Zion­ist: The Life of Solomon (Sioma) Yankele­vitch Jacobi
    Rodney Benjamin and David Cebon
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    Into the Light: The Heal­ing Art of Kalman Aron
    Susan Beil­by Magee
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    Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation’s His­to­ry Through the Lives of its Fore­most Leaders
    Jack L. Schwartzwald
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    Pere Marie-Benoit and Jew­ish Rescue
    Susan Zuccotti
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    Gertrud Kol­mar: A Lit­er­ary Life
    Dieter Kuhn; Linda Marianiello, trans.
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    The Holy or the Bro­ken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buck­ley & the Unlike­ly Ascent of ​“Hal­lelu­jah”
    Alan Light
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    Franz Kaf­ka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
    Saul Friedländer
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    Hen­ry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Bat­tle Against Hate Speech
    Victoria Saker Woeste
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    From Kristall­nacht to Water­gate: Mem­oirs of a Newspaperman
    Har­ry Rosenfeld
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    Lady at the O.K. Cor­ral: The True Sto­ry of Josephine Mar­cus Earp
    Ann Kirschn­er
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    Over­weight Sen­sa­tion: The Life and Com­e­dy of Allan Sherman
    Mark Cohen
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