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    Biography

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    Shush!: Grow­ing up Jew­ish Under Stalin
    Emil Draitser
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    Prince of the Press: How One Col­lec­tor Built His­to­ry’s Most Endur­ing and Remark­able Jew­ish Library
    Joshua Teplitsky
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    Life and Loss in the Shad­ow of the Holo­caust: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Untold Story
    Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey
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    Tightrope: Six Cen­turies of a Jew­ish Dynasty
    Michael Karpin
    Cover of Primo Levi's Universe: A Writer's Journey
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    Pri­mo Lev­i’s Uni­verse: A Writer’s Journey
    Sam Magavern; Jonathan Rosen, fwd.; Risa Sodi, aftwd.
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    Nehama Lei­bowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar
    Yael Unterman
    Cover of Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin
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    Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin
    Lisa Thaler
    Cover of David Ben-Gurion and the Jewish Renaissance
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    David Ben-Guri­on and the Jew­ish Renaissance
    Shlomo Aronson
    Cover of The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
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    The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Sto­ry of World War II
    Denis Avey with Rob Broomby
    Cover of Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets
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    Music for Silenced Voic­es: Shostakovich and His Fif­teen Quartets
    Wendy Less­er
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    Chil­dren’s
    Mau­rice Sendak (Who Wrote That?)
    Hal Marcovitz
    Cover of Houdini: The Handcuff King
    Chil­dren’s
    Hou­di­ni: The Hand­cuff King
    Jason Lutes; Nick Bertozzi
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    We Can Make It Happen
    Jane Taubenfeld Cohen; Bea Taubenfeld, illus.
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    Steven Spiel­berg
    Tom Powers
    Cover of A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of World War II
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    A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Miss­ing Agents of World War II
    Sarah Helm
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    Bad Faith: A For­got­ten His­to­ry of Fam­i­ly, Father­land, and Vichy France
    Carmen Callil
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