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Biography

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Chil­dren’s
Albert Ein­stein: Great Scientist
Anne Marie Sullivan
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We Called Him Rab­bi Abra­ham: Lin­coln and Amer­i­can Jew­ry, A Doc­u­men­tary History
Gary Philip Zola
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The Down­fall of Abba Hil­lel Sil­ver and the Foun­da­tion of Israel
Ofer Shiff
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Jabotin­sky: A Life
Hillel Halkin
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War­burg in Rome
James Carroll
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David: The Divid­ed Heart
David Wolpe
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Dolph Schayes and the Rise of Pro­fes­sion­al Basketball
Dolph Grund­man
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From Brook­lyn to the Olympics: The Hall of Fame Career of Auburn Uni­ver­si­ty Track Coach Mel Rosen
Craig Darch
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My Rebbe
Rab­bi Adin Steinsaltz
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Stel­la! The Moth­er of Mod­ern Acting
Sheana Ochoa, forward by Mark Ruffalo
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The Rad­i­cal Amer­i­can Judaism of Morde­cai M. Kaplan
Mel Scult
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The Pianist: The Extra­or­di­nary True Sto­ry of One Man’s Sur­vival in War­saw, 1939 – 1945
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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Fan­ny von Arn­stein: Daugh­ter of the Enlightenment
Hilde Spiel
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Becom­ing Freud: The Mak­ing of Psychoanalysis
Adam Phillips
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Hele­na Rubin­stein: The Woman Who Invent­ed Beauty
Michèle Fitoussi; Kate Bignold and Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer, trans.
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Anne Frank: Her Life
Marian Hoefnagel
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