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Cover of The Book of Revolutions: The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah

The Book of Revolutions: The Battles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah

Cover of The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire

The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire

Excerpt

Excerpt: The Sassoons

Joseph Sassoon

October 24, 2022

Cover of Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History

Early Jewish Cookbooks: Essays on Hungarian Jewish Gastronomical History

András Koerner

Cover of Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities

Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities

Cover of An Improbable Life: My Father's Escape from Soviet Russia

An Improbable Life: My Father’s Escape from Soviet Russia

Karine Rashkovsky

Cover of Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past

Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past

From the Journal

How Materials Speak: A Legacy of Puppetry

GennaRose Nethercott

September 12, 2022

Cover of Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends

Interview

‘Our Shared History’: A Conversation Between Alyson Richman and Shaunna Edwards

Shaunna Edwards, Alyson Richman

August 29, 2022

Recommended Reading

JBC Bookshelf: Fall 2022

Simona Zaretsky

August 29, 2022

Cover of Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes

Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes

Jerry Z. Muller

Cover of Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism

Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism

Cover of The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature

The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature

Recommended Reading

Jews in American Publishing

Josh Lambert

July 25, 2022

Cover of Zabar's: A Family Story, with Recipes

Zabar’s: A Family Story, with Recipes