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    A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Lega­cy of Flav­ius Josephus
    Frederic Raphael
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    Jacob: Unex­pect­ed Patriarch
    Yair Zakovitch
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    In the Lion’s Shad­ow: The Iran­ian Schindler and his Home­land in the Sec­ond World War
    Fariborz Mokhtari
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    Ire­na’s Jars of Secrets
    Marcia Vaughan; Ron Mazellan, illus.
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    The Eitin­gons: A Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Story
    Mary-Kay Wilmers
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    Writ­ing Biog­ra­phy: The Historian’s Chal­lenge, Part 2

    On Tues­day, Ger­ald Sorin wrote about ambiva­lence toward the genre of biog­ra­phy. Today, he con­sid­ers the ques­tion: Can the biog­ra­ph­er or their read­ers real­ly know the…
    Ger­ald Sorin
    November 8, 2012
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    Irv­ing Howe: A Life of Pas­sion­ate Dissent
    Ger­ald Sorin
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    Howard Fast: Life and Lit­er­a­ture in the Left Lane
    Ger­ald Sorin
    Essay

    Writ­ing Biog­ra­phy: The Historian’s Chal­lenge, Part 1

    Ger­ald Sorin​’s most recent book, Howard Fast: Life and Lit­er­a­ture in the Left Lane, is now avail­able. Ger­ald won the 2003 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award in His­to­ry for…
    Ger­ald Sorin
    November 6, 2012
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    The Holy Thief: A Con Man’s Jour­ney From Dark­ness to Light
    Mark Horvitz; Alan Eisenstock
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    A Por­trait of Paci­fists: Le Cham­bon, the Holo­caust, and the Lives of André and Mag­da Trocmé
    Richard P. Unsworth; Peter I. Rose, fwd.
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    Edouard Vuil­lard: A Painter and His Mus­es, 1890 – 1940
    Stephen Brown, with an essay by Richard R. Brettell
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    Isa­iah Berlin: The Jour­ney of a Jew­ish Liberal
    Arie M. Dubnov
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    Who She Was: My Search for my Moth­er’s Life
    Samuel G. Freedman
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    Kaf­ka
    Nicholas Murray
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    Irwin Unger; Debi Unger
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