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    The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Child­hood for All of Us
    Rachelle Berg­stein
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    Insep­a­ra­ble: A Holo­caust Sur­vival Story
    Faris Cas­sell
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    Ping-Pong Shab­bat: The True Sto­ry of Cham­pi­on Estee Ackerman
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    Chaim Weiz­mann: A Biography
    Jehuda Reinharz and Motti Golani; Haim Watzman, trans.
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    Amaz­ing Abe: How Abra­ham Cahan’s News­pa­per Gave a Voice to Jew­ish Immigrants
    Norman H. Finkelstein; Vesper Stamper, illus.
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    The Ein­stein of Sex: Dr. Mag­nus Hirschfeld, the Vision­ary of Weimar Berlin
    Daniel Brook
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    Mom­my, Can Boys Also Be Doc­tors?: Mes­sage To Young Sci­en­tists And Oth­er Humans
    Mar­lene Belfort
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    That Voice: In Search of Ann Drum­mond-Grant, the Singer Who Shaped My Life
    Mar­cia Menter
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    Heroes with Chutz­pah: 101 True Tales of Jew­ish Trail­blaz­ers, Change­mak­ers and Rebels
    Ker­ry Olitzky
    Deb­o­rah Bod­in Cohen
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    One of a Kind: The Life of Syd­ney Taylor
    Richard Michelson; Sarah Green, illus.
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    Jason Bell
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    Liz Klein­rock, Car­o­line Kusin Pritchard, Iris Got­tlieb
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