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    Biography

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    Torah Con­ver­sa­tions with Nechama Leibowitz
    Benjamin S. Yasgur
    Essay

    Why it Mat­ters that Mar­shall was Nev­er Nom­i­nat­ed for the Supreme Court

    Ear­li­er this week, M. M. Sil­ver wrote about the rich­es in Louis Mar­shal­l’s archive and explored why it took so long for some­one to write a full-length biog­ra­phy of…
    M. M. Silver
    March 1, 2013
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    The Road to the Apoc­a­lypse: The Extra­or­di­nary Jour­ney of Lewis Way
    Munro and Stanley Price
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    In Search of the Spir­i­tu­al: Gabriel Mar­cel, Psy­cho­analy­sis and the Sacred
    Paul Marcus
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    Rashi
    Avraham Grossman; Joel Linsider, trans.
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    Karl Marx: A Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Life
    Jonathan Sperber
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    I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
    Sylvie Simmons
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    Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter
    January 3, 2013
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    Vasi­ly Gross­man and the Sovi­et Century
    Alexandra Popoff
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    Rivers of Light: The Life of Claire Myers Owens
    Miri­am Kalman Friedman
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    The Food Explor­er: The True-Adven­tures of the Globe-Trot­ting Botanist Who Trans­formed What Amer­i­ca Eats
    Daniel Stone
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    The Rise of the Mod­ern Yid­dish Theater
    Alyssa Quint
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    My Soul is Filled with Joy: A Holo­caust Story
    Karen Treiger
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    Moth­er’s Cen­tu­ry: A Sur­vivor, Her Peo­ple and Her Times
    Richard L. Hermann
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    Rene­gade Women in Film & TV
    Eliz­a­beth Weitzman
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