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Nonfiction Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust Götz Aly; Jefferson Chase, trans.
Nonfiction The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews Bernard Wasserstein
Nonfiction Western Jews in India: From the Fifteenth Century to the Present Kenneth X. Robbins & Marvin Tokayer, eds.
Essay A Historical Look at Jews in the Work of Shakespeare Lois Leveen is the author of Juliet’s Nurse and The Secrets of Mary Bowser. She has been blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe… Lois Leveen October 1, 2014
Nonfiction A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination From Persecution to Genocide Alon Confino
Nonfiction Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis Robert Weinberg
Nonfiction Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
Nonfiction Jewish Identities in Postcommunist Russia and Ukraine: An Uncertain Ethnicity Zvi Gitelman
Essay Jews and Slavery: Isaac Cardozo and Lydia Weston Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century, and Clara Solomon, a Jewish girl… Sabra Waldfogel August 1, 2014
Nonfiction The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939 – 1945 Wladyslaw Szpilman
Nonfiction The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War Avi Raz
Essay Jews and Slavery: Clara Solomon and Lucy Lewis Earlier this week, Sabra Waldfogel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most eminent Jews in Georgia in the nineteenth century. She has recently published Slave and… Sabra Waldfogel July 30, 2014
