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    Biography

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    The Mes­sen­ger
    Yannick Haenel; Ian Monk, trans.
    Cover of A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky
    Non­fic­tion
    A Russ­ian Jew of Blooms­bury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky
    Galya Diment
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    Non­fic­tion
    The Escape of Sig­mund Freud
    David Cohen
    Cover of Reading Charlotte Salomon
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    Read­ing Char­lotte Salomon
    Michael P. Steinberg; Monica Bohm-Duchen, eds.
    Cover of Sharon: The Life of a Leader
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    Sharon: The Life of a Leader
    Gilad Sharon; Mitch Ginsburg, trans.
    Cover of The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of The Jewish Psychic in Hitler's Circle
    Non­fic­tion
    The Nazi Séance: The Strange Sto­ry of The Jew­ish Psy­chic in Hitler’s Circle
    Arthur J. Magida
    Cover of The Library of Author Biographies: Lynne Reid Banks
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    The Library of Author Biogra­phies: Lynne Reid Banks
    Sherri Liberman
    Cover of Marc Chagall and the Lost Jewish World
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    Marc Cha­gall and the Lost Jew­ish World
    Benjamin Harshav
    Cover of Wolf Trapped: The Life and Death of a Young Artist in Hitler's Europe
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    Wolf Trapped: The Life and Death of a Young Artist in Hitler’s Europe
    Robert Follett as told by Peter Natan
    Non­fic­tion
    Nev­er Despair: Six­ty Years in the Ser­vice of the Jew­ish Peo­ple and the Cause of Human Rights
    Gerhart M. Riegner; William Sayers, trans.
    Essay

    His­to­ri­ans, Biographers

    Dr. Abi­gail Green is the author of Moses Mon­te­fiore: Jew­ish Lib­er­a­tor, Impe­r­i­al Hero. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
    Abi­gail Green
    May 7, 2012
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    Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Con­tro­ver­sial Hero
    Mordechai Bar-On
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    An Unbro­ken Bond: The Untold Sto­ry Of How The 658 Can­tor Fitzger­ald Fam­i­lies Faced The Tragedy Of 9/11 And Beyond
    Edie Lut­nick
    Cover of Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals and Reagan's Rise to Power
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    Sub­ver­sives: The FBI’s War on Stu­dent Rad­i­cals and Rea­gan’s Rise to Power
    Seth Rosenfeld
    Cover of The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted By Her Beauty to Notice
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    The Acci­den­tal Fem­i­nist: How Eliz­a­beth Tay­lor Raised Our Con­scious­ness and We Were Too Dis­tract­ed By Her Beau­ty to Notice
    M.G. Lord
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    Levi Strauss Gets a Bright Idea: A Fair­ly Fab­ri­cat­ed Sto­ry of a Pair of Pants
    Tony Johnston; Stacy Innerst, illus.
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