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Biography

Cover of Carolina Israelite: How Harry Golden Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civil Rights
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Car­oli­na Israelite: How Har­ry Gold­en Made Us Care About Jews, the South, and Civ­il Rights
Kim­ber­ly Mar­lowe Hartnett
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The Life of Saul Bel­low: To Fame and For­tune, 1915 – 1964
Zachary Leader
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Ele­na Kagan: A Biography
Meg Greene
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Ben-Guri­on: Father of Mod­ern Israel
Anita Shapira; Anthony Berris, trans.
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Yosef Haim Bren­ner: A Life
Anita Shapira; Anthony Berris, trans.
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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
Annie Cohen-Solal
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The Jew Who Defeat­ed Hitler: Hen­ry Mor­gen­thau Jr., FDR, and How We Won the War
Peter Moreira
Cover of Turning Judaism Outward: A Biography of the Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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Turn­ing Judaism Out­ward: A Biog­ra­phy of the Rebbe Men­achem Mendel Schneerson
Chaim Miller
Cover of Sex vs. Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein
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Sex vs. Sur­vival: The Life and Ideas of Sabi­na Spielrein
John Launer
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Leonard Bern­stein: An Amer­i­can Musician
Allen Shawn
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Her­zl’s Vision: Theodor Her­zl and the Foun­da­tion of the Jew­ish State
Shlomo Avineri; Haim Watzman, trans.
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Spin­oza: The Out­cast Thinker
Devra Lehmann
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A Semi­te
Denis Guénoun
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Ben­ny Good­man & Ted­dy Wil­son: Tak­ing the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History
Lesa Cline-Ransome; James Ransome, illus.
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On a Beam of Light: A Sto­ry of Albert Einstein
Jennifer Berne
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Leonard Bern­stein and Amer­i­can Music
Catherine Reef
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