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    Wan­der­ing Soul: The Dyb­buk’s Cre­ator, S. An-sky
    Gabriella Safran
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    Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Sym­phonies Changed Our World
    Norman Lebrecht
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    Lip­man Pike: Amer­i­ca’s First Home Run King
    Richard Michelson; Zachary Pullen, illus.
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    Mod­el Nazi: Arthur Greis­er and the Occu­pa­tion of West­ern Poland
    Catherine Epstein
    Cover of Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
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    Muriel’s War: An Amer­i­can Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
    Sheila Isen­berg
    Cover of Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw
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    Three Chords for Beau­ty’s Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw
    Tom Nolan
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    Lenin’s Jew­ish Question
    Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 978-0-300-15210-4
    Cover of Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
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    Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
    Susan Goldman Rubin
    Cover of Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House
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    Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pic­tures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House
    Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol
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    Al Jaf­fee’s Mad Life: A Biography
    Mary-Lou Weisman; Al Jaffee, illus.
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    Hank Green­berg: The Hero Who Did­n’t Want to Be One
    Mark Kurlansky
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    Ablest Nav­i­ga­tor: Lieu­tenant Paul N. Shul­man USN, Israel’s Vol­un­teer Admiral
    J. Wandres
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    Lee Kras­ner: A Biography
    Gail Levin
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    The Cam­bridge Intro­duc­tion to Emmanuel Levinas
    Michael L. Morgan
    Cover of Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness
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    Stranger from Abroad: Han­nah Arendt, Mar­tin Hei­deg­ger, Friend­ship and Forgiveness
    Daniel Maier-Katkin
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    God­dess of the Mar­ket: Ayn Rand and the Amer­i­can Right
    Jennifer Burns
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