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History

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Foun­da­tion­al Pasts: The Holo­caust as His­tor­i­cal Understanding
Alon Confino
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Jew­ish Major Lea­guers in Their Own Words: Oral His­to­ries of 23 Players
Peter Ephross with Martin Abramowitz
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The Hebrew Book in Ear­ly Mod­ern Italy
Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, eds.
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Gold­en Har­vest: Events at the Periph­ery of the Holocaust
Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudzinska Gross
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Chelm­no and the Holo­caust: A His­to­ry of Hitler’s First Death Camp
Patrick Montague
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A Strange Death: A Sto­ry Orig­i­nat­ing in Espi­onage, Betray­al, and Vengeance in a Vil­lage in Old Palestine
Hillel Halkin
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Chil­dren’s
Jew­ish Stories
Anita Ganeri, Rachel Phillips, Illustrator
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Two Nations in Your Womb: Per­cep­tions of Jews and Chris­tians in Late Antiq­ui­ty and the Mid­dle Ages
Israel Jacob Yuval
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Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Let­ters from Jew­ish Migrants in the Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth Century
Gur Alroey
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A Con­ve­nient Hatred: The His­to­ry of Antisemitism
Phyllis Goldstein
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The Joint

Ear­li­er this week, Leslie Mait­land wrote about choos­ing an epi­graph, the artist Gunter Dem­nig’s Stolper­steine project, and recon­nect­ing branch­es of her fam­i­ly…
Leslie Mait­land
June 1, 2012
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Gen­tile New York: The Images of Non-Jews Among Jew­ish Immigrants
Gil Ribak
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Think­ing the Twen­ti­eth Century
Tony Judt with Tim Snyder
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The Holo­caust Con­tro­ver­sy: The Tre­blin­ka Affair in Post­war France
Samuel Moyn
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Vil­la Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
Rosemary Sullivan
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Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Bat­tles in the Holy Land
Gary Rashba
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