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Biography

Cover of The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City
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The New York­ers: 31 Remark­able Peo­ple, 400 Years, and the Untold Biog­ra­phy of the World’s Great­est City
Sam Roberts
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A Queen to the Res­cue: The Sto­ry of Hen­ri­et­ta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
Nancy Churnin, Yevgenia Nayberg (Illustrator)
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Meir Kahane: The Pub­lic Life and Polit­i­cal Thought of an Amer­i­can Jew­ish Radical
Shaul Magid
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Chil­dren’s
The Christ­mas Mitzvah
Jeff Gottes­feld
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The Naz­i’s Grand­daugh­ter: How I Dis­cov­ered My Grand­fa­ther Was a War Criminal
Sil­via Foti
Essay

On Trans­lat­ing Irène Némirovsky

San­dra Smith
November 29, 2021
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Into the For­est: A Holo­caust Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Tri­umph, and Love
Rebec­ca Frankel
Essay

How Pol­ly Adler, the Jew­ish Jezebel of the Jazz Age, Became a Top­sy-Turvy Amer­i­can Suc­cess Story

Deb­by Applegate
November 22, 2021
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Miss Dior: A Sto­ry of Courage and Couture
Justine Picardie
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Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows 
Arthur Lubow
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Han­nah G. Solomon Dared to Make a Difference
Bon­nie Lindauer
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Leonard Cohen: The Mys­ti­cal Roots of Genius
Harry Freedman
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Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel: A Life of Rad­i­cal Amazement
Julian E. Zelizer
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Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald
Carole Angier
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Bar­tal­i’s Bicy­cle: The True Sto­ry of Gino Bar­tali, Italy’s Secret Hero
Megan Hoyt, Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator)
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A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Sto­ry of the Resis­tance Hero who Fought the Nazis from Inside the Camp
Jack Fair­weath­er
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