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Nonfiction Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets’ Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War Isabella Ginor; Gideon Remez
Nonfiction A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History Michael Stanislawski
Visual Arts The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds.
Essay Saying New Things About Old Historical Episodes Earlier this week, Dr. Jonathan Sarna wrote about writing his most recent book, When General Grant Expelled the Jews, in Jerusalem. He has been blogging here all week for… Jonathan D. Sarna March 15, 2012
Nonfiction Israel at Sixty: An Oral History of a Nation Reborn Deborah Hart Strober; Gerald S. Strober
Nonfiction Terror in Black September: The First Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970 Hijackings David Raab
Nonfiction Rethinking Poles and Jews: Troubled Past, Brighter Future Robert Cherry and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, eds.