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Biography

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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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The Red Man’s Bones
Beni­ta Eisler
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The Priv­i­lege of Aging
Patri­cia Got­tlieb Shapiro
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The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem
Jere­my Dauber
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Rebec­ca Miller on Gluck­el of Hameln

This week on the Vis­it­ing Scribe, Rebec­ca Miller will be shar­ing texts that shed light on Jew­ish life in eigh­teenth-cen­tu­ry France, the set­ting of her new nov­el,…
Rebec­ca Miller
May 13, 2013
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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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Island Prac­tice
Pam Bel­luck
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The Mak­ing of Markova
Tina Sut­ton
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Yoni’s Last Bat­tle: The Res­cue at Entebbe, 1976
Iddo Netanyahu
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Boys of Steel: The Cre­ators of Superman
Marc Tyler Nobleman
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