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10/7: 100 Human Stories
Lee Yaron
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From Gen­er­a­tion to Gen­er­a­tion, On a Char­i­ot of Fire: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Siona Ben­jamin and Eri­ca Lyons

Isado­ra Kianovsky 
September 2, 2024
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No Road Lead­ing Back: An Improb­a­ble Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tan­gled Way We Tell the Sto­ry of the Holocaust
Chris Heath
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Two Wheels to Free­dom: The Sto­ry of a Young Jew, Wartime Resis­tance, and a Dar­ing Escape
Arthur J. Magida
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Occu­pied Words: What the Holo­caust Did to Yiddish
Han­nah Pollin-Galay
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Bad Jew: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest from the Min­sk Ghet­to to Netanyahu’s Israel
Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
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Mak­ing the Rev­o­lu­tion Jewish

Adam Jort­ner
August 19, 2024
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A Promised Land: Jew­ish Patri­ots, the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion, and the Birth of Reli­gious Freedom
Adam Jort­ner
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Excerpt — Ein­stein in Kafka­land: How Albert Fell Down the Rab­bit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

Ken Krim­stein
August 19, 2024
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Between the Bridge and the Bar­ri­cade: Jew­ish Trans­la­tion in Ear­ly Mod­ern Europe
Iris Idel­son-Shein
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(In)Sights: Peace­mak­ing in the Oslo Process Thir­ty Years and Counting
Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo
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Death Trip: A Post-Holo­caust Psy­che­del­ic Memoir
Seth Lor­inczi
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Final Ver­dict: The Holo­caust on Tri­al in the 21st Century
Tobias Buck
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How the West Became Anti­se­mit­ic: Jews and the For­ma­tion of Europe, 800‑1500
Ivan G. Marcus
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Why the Bible Began: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of Scrip­ture and its Origins
Jacob L. Wright
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Open­ing Doors: The Unlike­ly Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
Hasia R. Diner
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