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Nonfiction Jews Under Moroccan Skies: Two Thousand Years of Jewish Life Raphael David Elmaleh and George Ricketts
Nonfiction Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation’s History Through the Lives of its Foremost Leaders Jack L. Schwartzwald
Essay Joanna Hershon on Assimilation and Romanticizing the Past Earlier this week, Joanna Hershon wrote about an insult and a memorial service she attended for a friend’s father. Her new novel, A Dual… Joanna Hershon May 24, 2013
Recommended Reading The Jews of Poland: Recollections and Recipes by Edouard de Pomiane Last week, Rebecca Miller wrote about Gluckel of Hameln. She has been sharing texts that shed light on the history of Jewish life in France, the setting of her new… Rebecca Miller May 23, 2013
Nonfiction Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination Yael Halevi-Wise, ed.
Nonfiction From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Suppressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch; Valerie Zakovitch, trans.
Nonfiction The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah” Alan Light
Nonfiction The Pendulum: A Granddaughter’s Search for Her Family’s Forbidden Nazi Past Julie Lindahl
Nonfiction Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust Jack J. Hersch
Nonfiction Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech Victoria Saker Woeste
