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Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
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3.60 avg rating — 800 ratings
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Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
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3.77 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
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3.96 avg rating — 358 ratings
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Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
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4.31 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films
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3.30 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet
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3.75 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream
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3.85 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
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3.51 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence
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3.15 avg rating — 188 ratings
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Irving Berlin: New York Genius
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4.34 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
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3.72 avg rating — 213 ratings
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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel
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3.61 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel
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3.99 avg rating — 190 ratings
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David: The Divided Heart
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4.07 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Jabotinsky: A Life
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4.06 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want To Be One
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3.67 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade
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4.19 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah
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3.92 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician
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4.01 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence
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4.41 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Arthur Miller: American Witness
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Mel Brooks: Disobedient Jew
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3.70 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero
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3.84 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Admiral Hyman Rickover: Engineer of Power
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4.40 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity
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4.08 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud
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4.16 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution
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3.82 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman
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4.10 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Einstein: His Space and Times
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3.76 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution
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4.16 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Moses: A Human Life
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3.83 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch
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4.08 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
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3.74 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Lillian Hellman: An Imperious Life
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3.26 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Proust: The Search
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4.08 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
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3.57 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Judah Benjamin: Counselor to the Confederacy
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3.98 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Sidney Reilly: Master Spy
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3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Maimonides: Faith in Reason
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3.78 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Disraeli: The Novel Politician
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3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah
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4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist
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3.88 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life
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3.42 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Walther Rathenau: Weimar's Fallen Statesman
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3.50 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation
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4.29 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Jacob: Unexpected Patriarch
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3.87 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement
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4.26 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
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3.18 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter
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3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom
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3.64 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Henrietta Szold: Hadassah and the Zionist Dream
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4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent
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4.48 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader
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3.88 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale
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3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters
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4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Jerome Robbins: A Life in Dance
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3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Julius Rosenwald: Repairing the World
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4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Amos Oz: Writer, Activist, Icon
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3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Houdini: The Elusive American
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3.57 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Stan Lee: A Life in Comics
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3.77 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success
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3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Hayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew
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4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Abraham: The First Jew
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
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3.65 avg rating — 176 ratings
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Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt
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3.57 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker
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3.79 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah
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4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
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4.32 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Many Lives of Anne Frank
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4.26 avg rating — 214 ratings
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Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equation
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4.29 avg rating — 75 ratings
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