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Biography

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The Long Night: William L. Shir­er and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Steve Wick
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Gretel’s Sto­ry: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis
Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan
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The Wiz­ard of Lies: Bernard Mad­off and the Death of Trust
Diana B. Henriques
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The Woman Who Dared: A Biog­ra­phy of Amy Levy
Christine Pullen
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Ein­stein Before Israel: Zion­ist Icon or Iconoclast?
Ze’ev Rosenkranz
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Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
Shimon Peres with David Landau
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Ariel Sharon: A Life
Nir Hefez and Gadi Bloom; Mitch Ginsburg, trans.
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Emmanuel Lev­inas: His Life and Legacy
Salomon Malka
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Defin­ing Moments: Sto­ries of Char­ac­ter, Courage and Leadership
Gordon Zacks
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The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
Kati Mar­ton
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Emma Lazarus
Esther Schor
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Chil­dren’s
Albert Ein­stein
Frieda Wishinsky
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Sav­age Short­hand: The Life and Death of Isaac Babel
Jerome Charyn
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Elie Wiesel: Sur­viv­ing the Holo­caust, Speak­ing Out Against Genocide
Lisa Moore
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Modigliani: A Life
Jeffrey Meyers
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Redemp­tion: The Life of Hen­ry Roth
Steven G. Kellman
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