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Angus Smith

Angus Smith is a retired Cana­di­an intel­li­gence offi­cial, writer and Jew­ish edu­ca­tor who lives in rur­al Nova Scotia.

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Ana­toly Kuznetsov
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Israel’s Black Pan­thers: The Rad­i­cals Who Punc­tured a Nation’s Found­ing Myth
Asaf Elia-Shalev
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Shaul Kel­ner
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Joanne Intra­tor
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Matthew Dallek
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Maksim Goldenshteyn
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