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The Twentieth-Century Jewish State You’ve Never Heard Of

Alina Adams

August 28, 2023

Cover of The Watchmaker's Daughter

The Watchmaker’s Daughter

Cover of The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets

The Ascent: A House Can Have Many Secrets

Stefan Hertmans; David McKay, trans.

Cover of On a Chariot of Fire: The Story of India’s Bene Israel

On a Chariot of Fire: The Story of India’s Bene Israel

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Golem of the Lower East Side

Jerome Charyn

August 21, 2023

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Homesteading Jews

Susan Lynn Meyer

August 14, 2023

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Jewish Sunday Schools: Teaching Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

Cover of The Postcard

Anne Berest; Tina Kover, trans.

Cover of How to Become an American: A History of Immigration, Assimilation, and Loneliness

How to Become an American: A History of Immigration, Assimilation, and Loneliness

Cover of Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Jacob Mikanowski

Essay

Inventing Zacharias: Writing Mizrahi Stories

Jasmin Attia

July 10, 2023

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Spending a Fortnight in Jew Town, Kochi

Shastri Akella

July 10, 2023

Cover of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

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The Buried Treasures of the Paper Brigade

Meryl Frank

June 26, 2023

Cover of February 1933: The Winter of Literature

February 1933: The Winter of Literature

Uwe Wittstock; Daniel Bowles, trans.

Cover of The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz

The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz

Zalmen Gradowski; Rubye Monet, trans.