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Seth J. Frantzman

Seth J. Frantz­man received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty of Jerusalem where he cur­rent­ly holds a Post-Doc­tor­al Fel­low­ship. He is a colum­nist for the Jerusalem Post and Fel­low at the Jerusalem Insti­tute of Mar­ket Studies.
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Gen­e­sis: Tru­man, Amer­i­can Jews, and the Ori­gins of the Arab/​Israeli Conflict
John B. Judis
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Anony­mous Sol­diers: The Strug­gle For Israel, 1917 – 1947
Bruce Hoff­man
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The Down­fall of Abba Hil­lel Sil­ver and the Foun­da­tion of Israel
Ofer Shiff
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The Yom Kip­pur War: Pol­i­tics, Diplo­ma­cy, Legacy
Asaf Siniver
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Boy 30529: A Memoir
Felix Weinberg
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The Short, Strange Life of Her­schel Gryn­sz­pan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplo­mat, and a Mur­der in Paris
Jonathan Kirsch
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Israeli State­craft: Nation­al Secu­ri­ty Chal­lenges and Responses
Yehezkel Dror
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Mus­lims and Jews in Amer­i­ca: Com­mon­al­i­ties, Con­tentions, and Complexities
Reza Aslan and Aaron J. Hahn Tapper, eds.
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The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem: Pales­tin­ian Pol­i­tics and the City Since 1967
Hillel Cohen
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Broth­ers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena
Jerold S. Auerbach
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Peace in the Mak­ing: The Men­achem Begin-Anwar El-Sadat Per­son­al Correspondence
Harry Hurwitz and Yisrael Medad, ed.
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The End of the Holocaust
Alvin Rosen­feld
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Ottoman Broth­ers: Mus­lims, Chris­tians and Jews in Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Palestine
Michelle U. Campos
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‘A Land­scape of Ghost Towns’: Geno­cide in Iraq

Seth J. Frantzman
November 4, 2019

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