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    Cover of The Song of the Distant Dove: Judah Halevi's Pilgrimage
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    The Song of the Dis­tant Dove: Judah Hale­vi’s Pilgrimage
    Raymond P. Scheindlin
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    Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fall­en Statesman
    Shulamit Volkov
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    Joshua and Isado­ra: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust
    Michael Benanav
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    The Aaron­sohn Saga
    Shmuel Katz
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    You Nev­er Heard of Sandy Koufax?!
    Jonas Winter; Adré Carrilho, illus.
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    Trot­sky: A Biography
    Robert Service
    Cover of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
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    Tow­ers of Gold: How One Jew­ish Immi­grant Named Isa­ias Hell­man Cre­at­ed California
    Frances Dinkenspiel
    Cover of A Circle in the Square: Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Reinvents the Synagogue
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    A Cir­cle in the Square: Rab­bi Shlo­mo Riskin Rein­vents the Synagogue
    Edward Abramson
    Cover of Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Mind
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    Mai­monides: The Life and World of One of Civ­i­liza­tion’s Great­est Mind
    Joel L. Kraemer
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    The Lost Spy: An Amer­i­can in Stal­in’s Secret Service
    Andrew Meier
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    Cross­ing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Wit­ness Stand
    Benjamin Carter Hett
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    Shush!: Grow­ing up Jew­ish Under Stalin
    Emil Draitser
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    Lil­lian Wald: A Biography
    Marjorie N. Feld
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    Ted­dy Kollek: The Man, His Times, and His Jerusalem
    Ruth Bachi-Kolodny; Dr. Amy Avgar, trans.
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    Yehu­da Amichai: The Mak­ing of Israel’s Nation­al Poet
    Nili Scharf Gold
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    The Sev­en Lives of Colonel Pat­ter­son: How an Irish Lion Hunter Led the Jew­ish Legion to Victory
    Denis Brian
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