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Bet­ti­na Berch

Bet­ti­na Berch, author of the recent biog­ra­phy, From Hes­ter Street to Hol­ly­wood: The Life and Work of Anzia Yezier­s­ka, teach­es part-time at the Bor­ough of Man­hat­tan Com­mu­ni­ty College.

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Dorothy Gallagher
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Anne Frank: The Biography
Melissa Müller; Rita & Robert Kimber, trans.
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The Fam­i­ly: Three Jour­neys into the Heart of the Twen­ti­eth Century
David Laskin
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Total­ly Unof­fi­cial: The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Raphael Lemkin
Raphael Lemkin; Donna-Lee Frieze, ed.
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Birth Cer­tifi­cate: The Sto­ry of Dani­lo Kis
Mark Thompson
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I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
Mar­i­anne Szegedy-Maszak
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The Force of Things: A Mar­riage in War and Peace
Alexan­der Stille
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Broth­ers Emanuel: A Mem­oir of an Amer­i­can Family
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
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Oral Plea­sure: Kosin­s­ki as Storyteller
Jerzy Kosinski; Kiki Kosinski and Barbara Tepa Lupack, eds.
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Karl Marx: A Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Life
Jonathan Sperber
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The Eitin­gons: A Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Story
Mary-Kay Wilmers
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Howard Fast: Life and Lit­er­a­ture in the Left Lane
Ger­ald Sorin
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Isa­iah Berlin: The Jour­ney of a Jew­ish Liberal
Arie M. Dubnov
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A Titan­ic Love Sto­ry: Ida and Isidor Straus
June Hall McCash
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A Russ­ian Jew of Blooms­bury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky
Galya Diment

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