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Essay What’s in a Name? Jonathan B. Krasner is the author of the National Jewish Book Award winning title The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education. Krasner was also a finalist… Jonathan B. Krasner May 21, 2012
Nonfiction The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of The Jewish Psychic in Hitler’s Circle Arthur J. Magida
Nonfiction Wolf Trapped: The Life and Death of a Young Artist in Hitler’s Europe Robert Follett as told by Peter Natan
Nonfiction Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
Nonfiction The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity Yehouda Shenhav
Nonfiction Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and the Cause of Human Rights Gerhart M. Riegner; William Sayers, trans.
Nonfiction A Village Named Dowgalishok: The Massacre at Radon and Eishishok Avraham Aviel; Atalya Broide, trans.
Nonfiction When the World Closed its Doors: Struggling to Escape Nazi-Occupied Europe Ida Piller-Greenspan; Susan M. Branting
Nonfiction The History of the Holocaust in Romania Jean Ancel; Yaffah Murciano, trans.; Leon Volovici, ed.
Essay Historians, Biographers Dr. Abigail Green is the author of Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Abigail Green May 7, 2012
Nonfiction The Origins of Israel, 1882 – 1948: A Documentary History Eran Kaplan & Derek J. Penslar, eds.
Essay Blazing Saddles It Wasn’t Earlier this week, Gerald Kolpan shared the story behind Eli Gershonson, a photo gallery of some of the historical figures in his novel, and the… Gerald Kolpan May 4, 2012
