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Biography

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The Lion and the Uni­corn: Glad­stone vs. Disraeli
Richard Aldous
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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Janet Malcolm
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Kaf­ka and Cul­tur­al Zion­ism: Dates in Palestine
Iris Bruce
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The First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life of Rachel Beer: Cru­sad­ing Heiress and News­pa­per Pioneer
Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren
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Fein­gold: A New Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party
Sanford D. Horwitt
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Hol­ly­wood’s Celebri­ty Gang­ster: The Incred­i­ble Life and Times of Mick­ey Cohen
Brad Lewis
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The Jokes of Sig­mund Freud: A Study in Humor and Jew­ish Identity
Elliot Oring
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Ein­stein on Pol­i­tics: His Pri­vate Thoughts and Pub­lic Stands on Nation­al­ism, Zion­ism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann, eds.
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The Ghost

Ear­li­er this week, Leigh Stein revealed one of her ear­ly aspi­ra­tions: to ​“Be Anne Frank.” She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
Leigh Stein
February 15, 2012
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The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats
Claudia J. Nahson with Maurice Berger and Emily Casden
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Love Every Leaf: The Life of Land­scape Archi­tect Cor­nelia Hahn Oberlander
Kathy Stinson
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Max Lilien­thal: The Mak­ing of the Amer­i­can Rabbinate
Bruce L. Ruben
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The Life and Thought of Louis Lowy: Social Work Through the Holocaust
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