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Nonfiction The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris Jonathan Kirsch
Nonfiction The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz Ephraim Kanarfogel
Nonfiction The Synagogues of New York’s Lower East Side: A Retrospective and Contemporary View, Second Edition Gerard R. Wolfe; Joseph Berger, fwd.
Nonfiction Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate Richard Bowers
Nonfiction Hunting Down the Jews: Vichy, the Nazis and Mafia Collaborators in Provence, 1942 – 1944 Isaac Levendal and Bernard Weisz; Serge Klarsfeld, fwd.
Nonfiction The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust Fred Coleman
Nonfiction Süssen Is Now Free of Jews: World War II, The Holocaust, and Rural Judaism Gilya Gerda Schmidt
Nonfiction From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture Saba Soomekh
Essay Why it Matters that Marshall was Never Nominated for the Supreme Court Earlier this week, M. M. Silver wrote about the riches in Louis Marshall’s archive and explored why it took so long for someone to write a full-length biography of… M. M. Silver March 1, 2013
Essay Ten Percent of American Jewry’s Top 100 List M. M. Silver is a modern Jewish history scholar at Max Stern College of Emek Yezreel in Israel. His newest book, Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish… M. M. Silver February 25, 2013
Nonfiction The Rarest Blue: The Remarkable Story of an Ancient Color Lost to History and Rediscovered Baruch Sterman with Judy Taubes Sterman
Nonfiction The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 1973 – 2005 Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz, eds.
