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    Gol­da Meir: Israel’s Matriarch
    Deb­o­rah E. Lipstadt
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    Hank on First!: How Hank Green­berg Became a Star On and Off the Field
    Stephen Krensky; Alette Straathof, illus.
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    Becom­ing Ezra Jack Keats
    Vir­ginia McGee Butler
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    My Left Skate
    Anna Ros­ner
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    It’s Her Sto­ry: Ire­na Sendler
    Margaret Littman; Sara Luna, illus.
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    Madame Alexan­der: The Cre­ator of the Icon­ic Amer­i­can Doll
    Sarah Goldman Rubin; Sarah Dvojack, illus.
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    Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bob­by Fischer
    Julian Voloj; Wagner Willian, illus.
    Cover of Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: That’s How the Light Gets In
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    Leonard Cohen, Untold Sto­ries: That’s How the Light Gets In
    Michael Pos­ner
    Essay

    Elie Wiesel: Torch­bear­er for Holo­caust Survivors

    Joseph Berg­er
    May 28, 2023
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    Elie Wiesel: Con­fronting the Silence
    Joseph Berg­er
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    Polit­i­cal Pow­er: Volodymyr Zelenskyy
    Michael Frizell
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    Kreisky, Israel and Jew­ish Identity
    Daniel Aschheim
    Cover of The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
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    The Women of Roth­schild: The Untold Sto­ry of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty
    Natal­ie Livingstone
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    End­less Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth 
    Keiron Pim
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    Beethoven in the Bunker: Musi­cians Under the Nazi Regime
    Fred Brouwers; Eileen J. Stevens, trans.
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    The Con­fi­dante: The Untold Sto­ry of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Mod­ern America
    Christo­pher C. Gorham
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