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Cover of A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America

A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America

Cover of The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

Roxane van Iperen

Cover of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918 – 1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Jeffrey Veidlinger

Cover of Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

Cover of The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World’s Most Notorious Terrorists

Cover of The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

Cover of Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty

Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty

Joanne Goldblum

Cover of Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers

Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers

Cover of Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel

Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel

Cover of Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage

Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage

Catherine Ehrlich

Cover of The Note Through the Wire: The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine

The Note Through the Wire: The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine

Cover of Competing With Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

Competing With Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait

Cover of The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle

The History of Stand-Up: From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle

Cover of The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

Essay

A Novel Opening

Rachel Beanland

August 10, 2020

Essay

A Brief History of Balkan Jews and the Story of the Synagogue of Zagreb

Michele Levy

August 3, 2020