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The Jews of Sum­mer: Sum­mer Camp and Jew­ish Cul­ture in Post­war America
San­dra Fox
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Non­fic­tion
Sing, Mem­o­ry: The Remark­able Sto­ry of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps
Makana Eyre
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Non­fic­tion
Inti­mate Strangers: A His­to­ry of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome
Fredric Brand­fon
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Non­fic­tion
The Women of Roth­schild: The Untold Sto­ry of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty
Natal­ie Livingstone
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Britain’s Jews: Con­fi­dence, Matu­ri­ty, Anxiety
Har­ry Freedman
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Diary of a Black Jew­ish Mes­si­ah: The Six­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Jour­ney of David Reubeni through Africa, the Mid­dle East, and Europe 
Alan Ver­skin
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Speak­ing Yid­dish to Chick­ens: Holo­caust Sur­vivors on South Jer­sey Poul­try Farms
Seth Stern
Essay

Jews of the Span­ish Home­land: Find­ing My Sephardic Fam­i­ly in a 1929 Film

Eliz­a­beth Graver
April 10, 2023
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Impos­si­ble Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Cre­ation, Has Israel Ful­filled Its Founders’ Dreams?
Daniel Gordis
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Chil­dren’s
Rose Spoke Out: The Sto­ry of Rose Schneiderman
Emma Carlson Berne; Giovanni Abeille, illus.
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Chil­dren’s
The Mir­a­cle Seed
Mar­tin Lemelman
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The Shama­ma Case: Con­test­ing Cit­i­zen­ship across the Mod­ern Mediterranean
Jes­si­ca M. Marglin
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The Diary Keep­ers: World War II in the Nether­lands, as Writ­ten by the Peo­ple Who Lived Through It 
Nina Sie­gal
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Mai­monides: Faith in Reason
Alber­to Manguel
Essay

A Haunt­ed Judge Keeps His Promise

Mar­tin J. Siegel
March 13, 2023
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JBC Staff
March 13, 2023
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