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    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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    John Lahr
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    The Sas­soons: The Great Glob­al Mer­chants and the Mak­ing of an Empire 
    Joseph Sas­soon
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    Sid­ney Reil­ly: Mas­ter Spy
    Ben­ny Morris
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    The Auschwitz Pro­to­cols: Ceslav Mor­dow­icz and the Race to Save Hun­gary’s Jews 
    Fred R. Bleakley
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    Pro­fes­sor Buber and His Cats
    Susan Tar­cov
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    Amer­i­can Wolf: From Nazi Refugee to Amer­i­can Spy
    Audrey Birn­baum
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    The Blumkin Project: A Bio­graph­i­cal Novel
    Christian Salmon; William Rodarmor, trans.
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    Ros­alind Looked Clos­er: An Unsung Hero of Mol­e­c­u­lar Science 
    Lisa Gerin; Chiara Fedele, illus.
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    Sal­ly Opened Doors: The Sto­ry of the First Woman Rabbi
    Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Margeaux Lucas, illus. 
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    The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
    Maris­sa Moss
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    “Nice” Jew­ish Girls
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    Penin­nah’s World: A Jew­ish Life in Stories 
    Caren Schnur Neile
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    Florine Stet­theimer: A Biography
    Bar­bara Bloemink
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