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History

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Israeli Folk Nar­ra­tives: Set­tle­ment, Immi­gra­tion, Ethnicity
Haya Bar-Itzhak
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The Pain Of Knowledge
Yair Auron; Ruth Ruzga, trans.
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The Birth of Sur­ro­ga­cy in Israel
D. Kelly Weisberg
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The Acci­den­tal Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Set­tle­ments, 1967 – 1977
Gershom Gorenberg
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Auschwitz: A History
Sybille Steinbacher, trans.
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After Day­break: The Lib­er­a­tion of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Ben Shephard
Essay

Codex vs. Kindle

Mat­ti Fried­man is a reporter in Jerusalem for the Times of Israel, and author of The Alep­po Codex. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
Mat­ti Friedman
July 16, 2012
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The Soci­ety of Ter­ror: Inside the Dachau and Buchen­wald Con­cen­tra­tion Camps
Paul M. Neurath
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The Dis­cov­er­ies: Great Break­throughs in 20th Cen­tu­ry Sci­ence, Includ­ing Orig­i­nal Papers
Alan Light­man
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Pil­grim­age and the Jews
David M. Gitlitz, Linda Kay Davidson
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Amer­i­can Dreams and Nazi Night­mares: Ear­ly Holo­caust Con­scious­ness and Lib­er­al Amer­i­ca 1957 – 1965
Kristen Fermaglich
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Jew­ish Immi­grants 1880 – 1924: Com­ing to Amer­i­ca Series
Susan E. Haberle
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The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Erica Rand
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Two Thou­sand Years of Jew­ish Life in Morocco
Haim Zafrani
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The Voice of the Poor in the Mid­dle Ages: An Anthol­o­gy of Doc­u­ments From the Cairo Geniza
Mark Cohen
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Fire and Song: The Sto­ry of Luis de Car­va­jal and the Mex­i­can Inquisition
Anna Lanyon
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