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Biography

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A Haunt­ed Judge Keeps His Promise

Mar­tin J. Siegel
March 13, 2023
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Mai­monides: Faith in Reason
Alber­to Manguel
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Chil­dren’s
A Place to Belong: Deb­bie Fried­man Sings Her Way Home
Deborah Lakritz; Julie Castano, illus. 
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Chil­dren’s
A Per­fect Fit: How Lena ​“Lane” Bryant Changed the Shape of Fashion
Mara Rockliff; Juana Martinez-Neal, illus.
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Here We Are All Jews: 175 Russ­ian — Jew­ish Journeys
Jonathan Porath
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Mel Brooks: Dis­obe­di­ent Jew
Jere­my Dauber
Essay

Find­ing Anna Rosenberg

Christo­pher C. Gorham
February 27, 2023
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In the Gar­den of the Right­eous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews Dur­ing the Holocaust
Richard Hurowitz
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Zel­da Pop­kin: The Life and Times of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Woman Writer
Jere­my D. Popkin
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Sav­ing Freud: The Res­cuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
Andrew Nagors­ki
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A Banker’s Jour­ney: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Glob­al Finan­cial Empire
Daniel Gross
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Excerpt: The New Yorkers

Sam Roberts
December 19, 2022
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World 
Jonathan Freed­land
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The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlike­ly Jour­ney to the Promised Land
Gra­ciela Mochkofsky
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Arthur Miller: Amer­i­can Witness
John Lahr
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The Sas­soons: The Great Glob­al Mer­chants and the Mak­ing of an Empire 
Joseph Sas­soon
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