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Cover of The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times

The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times

Cover of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz

Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz

Cover of Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America

Ambivalent Embrace: Jewish Upward Mobility in Postwar America

Cover of What Are the Ten Commandments?

What Are the Ten Commandments?

Yona Zeldis McDonough & Who HQ; Tim Foley, illus.

Cover of 1947: Where Now Begins

1947: Where Now Begins

Elisabeth Åsbrink; Fiona Graham, trans.

Cover of Before All Memory is Lost: Women's Voices From the Holocaust

Before All Memory is Lost: Women’s Voices From the Holocaust

Myrna Goldenberg

Cover of Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and the History of Migration Law

Seeking Asylum in Israel: Refugees and the History of Migration Law

Cover of Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906

Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817 – 1906

Ellie R. Schainker

Cover of Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco

Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco

Jessica M. Marglin

Cover of Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity

Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity

Cover of The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew

The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew

Cover of The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969)

The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823−1969)

Essay

Five Historic Jewish Communities You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of

Shari Rabin

December 19, 2017

Cover of Kristallnacht (Eyewitness to World War II)

Kristallnacht (Eyewitness to World War II)

Stephanie Fitzgerald

Cover of A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War

A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War

Cover of Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America