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    Spin­oza: Free­dom’s Messiah
    Ian Buru­ma
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    Herod the Great: Jew­ish King in a Roman World
    Mar­tin Goodman
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    The Comics of Asaf Hanu­ka: Telling Par­tic­u­lar and Uni­ver­sal Stories
    Matt Rein­gold
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    I Am Ruth Bad­er Ginsburg
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    “One of a Kind: The Life of Syd­ney Tay­lor” — How the Book Began 

    Richard Michel­son
    March 11, 2024
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    Hen­ri­et­ta Szold: Hadas­sah and the Zion­ist Dream
    Francine Klags­brun
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    Alfred Drey­fus: The Man at the Cen­ter of the Affair
    Mau­rice Samuels
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    On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Oth­er Europe
    Eva Hoff­man
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    Excerpt: The Coun­ter­feit Countess

    Eliz­a­beth B. White, Joan­na Sliwa
    January 22, 2024
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    The Coun­ter­feit Count­ess: The Jew­ish Woman Who Res­cued Thou­sands of Poles Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Eliz­a­beth B. White
    Joan­na Sliwa
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    Love and Sur­vival in Auschwitz

    Keren Blank­feld
    January 22, 2024
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    A Bril­liant Life: My Moth­er’s Inspir­ing True Sto­ry of Sur­viv­ing the Holocaust
    Rachelle Unre­ich
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    For­got­ten Girls of the Holo­caust: Annette Zel­man’s Story

    Heather Dune Macadam, Simon Wor­rall
    January 8, 2024
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    Char­lotte Salomon’s Indeli­ble Legacy

    Susan Wider
    January 1, 2024
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    Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin
    Dan­ny Fingeroth
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    Brave Volodymyr: The Sto­ry of Volodymyr Zelen­sky and the Fight for Ukraine
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