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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Essay A Nazi Meeting at Madison Square Garden Earlier this week, Ezra Glinter wrote about the research behind his anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The… Ezra Glinter November 2, 2016
Essay B‑Sides from The Borscht Belt Earlier this week, Marisa Scheinfeld reflected on how the themes of the Jewish High Holidays relate to her book, The Borscht Belt: Revisiting the Remains of America’s… Marisa Scheinfeld October 13, 2016
Nonfiction The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews Michael N. Barnett
Nonfiction Coming of Age in Jewish America: Bar and Bat Mitzvah Reinterpreted Patricia Keer Munro
Nonfiction Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America Kenyon Zimmer