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Biography

Cover of Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
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Cross­ing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Wit­ness Stand
Benjamin Carter Hett
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Shush!: Grow­ing up Jew­ish Under Stalin
Emil Draitser
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Lil­lian Wald: A Biography
Marjorie N. Feld
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Ted­dy Kollek: The Man, His Times, and His Jerusalem
Ruth Bachi-Kolodny; Dr. Amy Avgar, trans.
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Yehu­da Amichai: The Mak­ing of Israel’s Nation­al Poet
Nili Scharf Gold
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The Sev­en Lives of Colonel Pat­ter­son: How an Irish Lion Hunter Led the Jew­ish Legion to Victory
Denis Brian
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Prince of the Press: How One Col­lec­tor Built His­to­ry’s Most Endur­ing and Remark­able Jew­ish Library
Joshua Teplitsky
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Life and Loss in the Shad­ow of the Holo­caust: A Jew­ish Fam­i­ly’s Untold Story
Rebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey
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Nehama Lei­bowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar
Yael Unterman
Cover of Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin
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Look Up: The Life and Art of Sacha Kolin
Lisa Thaler
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Tightrope: Six Cen­turies of a Jew­ish Dynasty
Michael Karpin
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Pri­mo Lev­i’s Uni­verse: A Writer’s Journey
Sam Magavern; Jonathan Rosen, fwd.; Risa Sodi, aftwd.
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Music for Silenced Voic­es: Shostakovich and His Fif­teen Quartets
Wendy Less­er
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David Ben-Guri­on and the Jew­ish Renaissance
Shlomo Aronson
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The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Sto­ry of World War II
Denis Avey with Rob Broomby
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Hou­di­ni: The Hand­cuff King
Jason Lutes; Nick Bertozzi
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