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Nonfiction The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70 – 1492 Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
Nonfiction Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way Harry Brod
Nonfiction In the Lion’s Shadow: The Iranian Schindler and his Homeland in the Second World War Fariborz Mokhtari
Nonfiction Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life Laura Arnold Leibman
Nonfiction Collect and Record: Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe Laura Jockusch
Nonfiction The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement. Nathaniel Deutsch
Nonfiction Russian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917 – 1920 Oleg Budnitskii; Timothy J. Portice, trans.
Nonfiction The Nazi Concentration Camps, 1933 – 1939: A Documentary History Christian Goeschel & Nikolaus Wachsmann, eds.; Ewald Osers, trans.
Essay Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 2 On Tuesday, Gerald Sorin wrote about ambivalence toward the genre of biography. Today, he considers the question: Can the biographer or their readers really know the… Gerald Sorin November 8, 2012