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George Soros: A Life In Full
Peter Osnos (Editor)
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The Baron: Mau­rice de Hirsch and the Jew­ish Nine­teenth Century
Matthias B. Lehmann
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A ​“Jew­ish Mar­shall Plan” The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Pres­ence in Post-Holo­caust France
Lau­ra Hob­son Faure
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The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Phil­an­thropic Com­plex: The His­to­ry of a Multi­bil­lion-Dol­lar Institution
Lila Cor­win Berman
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Inter­na­tion­al Jew­ish Human­i­tar­i­an­ism in the Age of the Great War
Jaclyn Granick
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Hel­lo Dark­ness, My Old Friend
Sanford D. Greenberg, Art Garfunkel (Introduction), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Forward), Margaret Atwood (Final Word)posts
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Dis­tilled: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly, Sea­gram, Base­ball, and Philanthropy
Charles Bronfman with Howard Green
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The Holo­caust Book Award in Mem­o­ry of Ernest W. Michel Named for 2017

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March 7, 2017
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The Art of Doing Good: Where Pas­sion Meets Action
Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey Solomon with John Sedgwick
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Toward a Renewed Eth­ic of Jew­ish Philanthropy
Yossi Prager, ed.; Robert Hirt, series ed.
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The Pow­er of Half: One Fam­i­ly’s Deci­sion to Stop Tak­ing and Start Giv­ing Back
Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen
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The Art of Giv­ing: Where the Soul Meets a Busi­ness Plan
Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey Solomon; James Wolfensohn, fwd.

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