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    Rab­bis, Sor­cer­ers, Kings, and Priests: The Cul­ture of the Tal­mud in Ancient Iran
    Jason Sion Mokhtarian
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    Leav­ing the Jew­ish Fold: Con­ver­sa­tion and Rad­i­cal Assim­i­la­tion in Mod­ern Jew­ish History
    Todd M. Endelman
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    Roman Vish­ni­ac Rediscovered
    Maya Ben­ton
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    Jews and Islam­ic Law in Ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry Yemen
    Mark S. Wagner
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    Birth, Sex and Abuse: Wom­en’s Voic­es Under Nazi Rule
    Bev­er­ley Chalmers
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    Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Con­flict: 1929
    Hillel Cohen
    Interview

    Inter­view: Anne C. Heller

    with Philip K. JasonAnne C. Heller’s skill­ful­ly pithy biog­ra­phy of Han­nah Arendt sparked new ques­tions about one of the most famous and con­tro­ver­sial philoso­phers…
    Philip K. Jason
    December 6, 2015
    News

    Writ­ing Across the Lin­guae Fran­cae of Mid­cen­tu­ry Jew­ish America

    Post­ed by Nat Bern­steinJew­ish Book Coun­cil is proud to announce the real­iza­tion of its project to cre­ate a dig­i­tized archive of the Jew­ish Book Annu­al in…
    Nat Bern­stein
    November 23, 2015
    News

    “An Age of Cre­ative Read­ers Makes for Lit­er­a­ture Which Is Immortal”

    Post­ed by Nat Bern­stein.Fif­teen years after Fan­ny Gold­stein estab­lished the first Jew­ish Book Week at the West End Branch of the Boston Pub­lic Library in 1925,…
    Nat Bern­stein
    November 9, 2015
    Essay

    His­to­ry and Historians

    Eric Gart­man is the author of Return from Zion: The His­to­ry of Mod­ern Israel. He will be blog­ging here all week as part of the Vis­it­ing Scribe series on The…
    Eric Gart­man
    November 9, 2015
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    Pas­tra­mi on Rye: An Over­stuffed His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Deli
    Ted Mer­win
    Essay

    Of Lutis and Loot­ers: His­to­ry as the Sis­ter of Fiction

    Ear­li­er this week, Par­naz Foroutan wrote about her child­hood deter­mi­na­tion to learn Eng­lish after see­ing a girl who looked just like her on the cov­er of Anne…
    Par­naz Foroutan
    August 19, 2015
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    Jew­ish Resis­tance Against the Nazis
    Patrick Henry, ed.
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    Alice in Shan­dehland: Scan­dal and Scorn in the Edelson/​Horwitz Mur­der Case
    Monda Halpern
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    Before Auschwitz: Jew­ish Pris­on­ers in the Pre­war Con­cen­tra­tion Camps
    Kim Wünschmann
    Interview

    Inter­view: Joseph Kanon

    by Elise Coop­erLeav­ing Berlin by Joseph Kanon is a grip­ping his­tor­i­cal thriller. The book’s plot takes place in Berlin four years after the end of World War II.…
    Elise Coop­er
    August 11, 2015
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