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Biography

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Chil­dren’s
Levi & Aya
Shoshana Banana
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Non­fic­tion
Ire­na’s Children
Tilar Mazzeo
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Till We Have Built Jerusalem
Adi­na Hoffman
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Stars in the Ring
Mike Sil­ver
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I Dis­sent: Ruth Bad­er Gins­burg Makes Her Mark
Debbie Levy; Elizabeth Baddeley, illus.
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Escape to Vir­ginia: From Nazi Ger­many to Thalhimer’s Farm
Robert H. Gillette
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Nathan’s Famous: The First 100 Years of Amer­i­ca’s Favorite Frank­furter Company
William Handwerker with Jayne Pearl
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The Inven­tor’s Dilemma
David J. Gerber
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The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagors­ki
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Bridge of Words
Esther Schor
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Dis­raeli: The Nov­el Politician
David Cesarani
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Is that Kaf­ka?: 99 Finds
Reiner Stach; Kurt Beals, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
Raoul Wal­len­berg: The Hero­ic Life and Mys­te­ri­ous Dis­ap­pear­ance of the Man Who Saved Thou­sands of Hun­gar­i­an Jews from the Holocaust
Ingrid Carlberg; Ebba Segerberg, trans.; Kofi A. Annan, intro.
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The Lady with the Bor­zoi: Blanche Knopf, Lit­er­ary Tastemak­er Extraordinaire
Laura Claridge
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Non­fic­tion
Orches­tra of Exiles
Josh Aronson and Denise George
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Max Baer, Real and Imagined

Ear­li­er this week, Jay Neuge­boren shared his per­son­al list of the Jew­ish sports heroes that made him feel more Amer­i­can. Jay is guest blog­ging all week as part of the…
Jay Neuge­boren
March 31, 2016
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