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Nonfiction Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817 – 1906 Ellie R. Schainker
Nonfiction The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew Yair Mintzker
Nonfiction The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823−1969) Arlo Haskell
Essay Five Historic Jewish Communities You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of Shari Rabin December 19, 2017
Nonfiction Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law James Q. Whitman
Nonfiction Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America Shari Rabin
Nonfiction The Soviet-Israeli War, 1967 – 1973: The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez