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Excerpt

Excerpt: Bungalow Colonies and Mahjong Summers

Annelise Heinz

May 3, 2021

Essay

Shaking Up the Tanakh

Alison L. Joseph

May 3, 2021

Cover of Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe

Paola Tartakoff

Interview

‘It’s a Story First’: A Conversation with Amy Hest

Emily Schneider

April 12, 2021

Cover of Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation

Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation

Claudio Lomnitz

Essay

Healers of the Pale: A Hidden Herbal Legacy

Deatra Cohen

April 5, 2021

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Osnat and Her Dove: The True Story of the World’s First Female Rabbi

Sigal Samuel; Vali Mintzi, illus.

Cover of The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York City

Scott D. Seligman

Cover of The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos

Essay—From the Journal

The Silent Toilers Are No Longer Silent

Alexis Landau

March 15, 2021

Essay

‘A Most Unlikely Secret Agent’: The Story of Noor Inayat Khan

Arthur J. Magida

March 15, 2021

Cover of The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution

The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution

Lila Corwin Berman

Cover of Shalom Uganda: A Jewish Community On the Equator

Shalom Uganda: A Jewish Community On the Equator

Cover of The Hitler Haggadah: A Moroccan Jew's Wartime Retelling of the Passover Story

The Hitler Haggadah: A Moroccan Jew’s Wartime Retelling of the Passover Story

Cover of Fruits of Freedom: The Torah Flora Hagadah

Fruits of Freedom: The Torah Flora Hagadah

Cover of The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust

The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust

Rosie Whitehouse