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Essay Where Should We Have Gone? Earlier this week, Adam Rovner wrote about the top five alternative Jewish homelands that he didn’t explore in his new book, In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands… Adam Rovner December 10, 2014
Essay Top 5 Promised Lands I Didn’t Explore Adam Rovner is the author of In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel out this week from NYU Press. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Adam Rovner December 8, 2014
Nonfiction The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire Adam D. Mendelsohn
Nonfiction Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform Francesca Bregoli
Children’s Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History Lesa Cline-Ransome; James Ransome, illus.
Children’s Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival Marcel Prins & Peter Henk Steenhuis
Nonfiction After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921 – 1965 Libby Garland
Nonfiction The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa: A Community in Belarus, 1625 – 2000 Albert Kaganovitch
Nonfiction The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History David N. Myers & Alexander Kaye, eds.
Nonfiction We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History Gary Philip Zola
Nonfiction Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
