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    Excerpt: When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

    Julie Satow
    June 17, 2024
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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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    Har­ry and the High­wire: Houdini’s First Amaz­ing Act
    Julie Carpenter; Laura Catalán, illus.
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    One of a Kind: The Life of Syd­ney Taylor
    Richard Michelson; Sarah Green, illus.
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    Crack­ing the Nazi Code: The Untold Sto­ry of Agent A12 and the Solv­ing of the Holo­caust Code
    Jason Bell
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    Search­ing for Martha Freud

    Daphne Merkin
    May 13, 2024
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    Cov­er Reveal: ​“What Jew­ish Looks Like”

    Liz Klein­rock, Car­o­line Kusin Pritchard, Iris Got­tlieb
    May 3, 2024
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    The For­bid­den Daugh­ter: The True Sto­ry of a Holo­caust Survivor
    Zipo­ra Klein Jakob
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    Herod the Great: Jew­ish King in a Roman World
    Mar­tin Goodman
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    Spin­oza: Free­dom’s Messiah
    Ian Buru­ma
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    The Comics of Asaf Hanu­ka: Telling Par­tic­u­lar and Uni­ver­sal Stories
    Matt Rein­gold
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    I Am Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
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    “One of a Kind: The Life of Syd­ney Tay­lor” — How the Book Began 

    Richard Michel­son
    March 11, 2024
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    Hen­ri­et­ta Szold: Hadas­sah and the Zion­ist Dream
    Francine Klags­brun
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    Alfred Drey­fus: The Man at the Cen­ter of the Affair
    Mau­rice Samuels
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    On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Oth­er Europe
    Eva Hoff­man
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