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    Love Every Leaf: The Life of Land­scape Archi­tect Cor­nelia Hahn Oberlander
    Kathy Stinson
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    Max Lilien­thal: The Mak­ing of the Amer­i­can Rabbinate
    Bruce L. Ruben
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    The Life and Thought of Louis Lowy: Social Work Through the Holocaust
    Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella; Joachim Wieler, fwd.
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    Albert Ein­stein: A Biography
    Milton Meltzer
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    Jezebel: The Untold Sto­ry of the Bible’s Har­lot Queen
    Lesley Hazleton
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    Kaszt­ner’s Train: The True Sto­ry of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
    Anna Porter
    Cover of Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry's Extraordinary Ride
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    Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Lon­don­der­ry’s Extra­or­di­nary Ride
    Peter Zheutlin
    Cover of Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman
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    Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fall­en Statesman
    Shulamit Volkov
    Cover of Joshua and Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust
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    Joshua and Isado­ra: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust
    Michael Benanav
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    Ein­stein and Oppen­heimer: The Mean­ing of Genius
    Silvan S. Schweber
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    The Song of the Dis­tant Dove: Judah Hale­vi’s Pilgrimage
    Raymond P. Scheindlin
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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
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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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