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Philip K. Jason

Philip K. Jason is pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus of Eng­lish at the Unit­ed States Naval Acad­e­my. A for­mer edi­tor of Poet Lore, he is the author or edi­tor of twen­ty books, includ­ing Acts and Shad­ows: The Viet­nam War in Amer­i­can Lit­er­ary Cul­ture and Don’t Wave Good­bye: The Chil­dren’s Flight from Nazi Per­se­cu­tion to Amer­i­can Free­dom.

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Berlin 1936: Six­teen Days in August
Oliver Hilmes; Jefferson Chase, trans.
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A Father’s Sto­ry: My Fight for Jus­tice Against Iran­ian Terror
Stephen M. Flatow
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Let­ters to My Pales­tin­ian Neighbor
Yos­si Klein Halevi
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Thou Shalt Inno­vate: How Israeli Inge­nu­ity Repairs the World
Avi Jorisch
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The Stakes of His­to­ry: On the Use and Abuse of Jew­ish His­to­ry for Life
David N. Myers
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Fic­tion
Death in Shangri-La
Yigal Zur
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Secrets and Shadows
Roberta Silman
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The Orchard
Yochi Brandes; Daniel Libenson, trans.
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A Crime in the Family
Sacha Batthyány; trans. Anthea Bell
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Bar­ren Island: A Novel
Car­ol Zoref
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My Adven­tures with God
Stephen Tobolowksy
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Jews and Ukraini­ans: A Mil­len­ni­um of Co-Existence
Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
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The Weapon Wizards
Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot
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The Orphan’s Tale
Pam Jenoff
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Adol­fo Kamin­sky: A Forg­er’s Life
Sarah Kaminsky; Mike Mitchell, trans.

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Inter­view: Yaakov Katz

Philip K. Jason
May 4, 2017
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Inter­view: Anne C. Heller

with Philip K. JasonAnne C. Heller’s skill­ful­ly pithy biog­ra­phy of Han­nah Arendt sparked new ques­tions about one of the most famous and con­tro­ver­sial philoso­phers…
Philip K. Jason
December 6, 2015
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Inter­view: Yos­si Klein Halevi

Yos­si Klein Hale­vi’s first book, Mem­oirs of a Jew­ish Extrem­ist, was first pub­lished in 1995 and was reprint­ed in fall 2014. At the Entrance to the Gar­den of Eden:…
Philip K. Jason
January 13, 2015
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Fate Knock­ing at the Door: An Inter­view with Ilan Stavans

by Philip K. JasonPhilip K. Jason: What binds your inter­est in com­ic strips and graph­ic nov­els on the one hand and more tra­di­tion­al crit­i­cal explo­rations on the…
Philip K. Jason
December 19, 2012

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