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    Cover of The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt
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    The Busi­ness of Iden­ti­ty: Jews, Mus­lims and Eco­nom­ic Life in Medieval Egypt
    Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman
    Cover of A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987
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    A Ques­tion of Tra­di­tion: Women Poets in Yid­dish, 1586 – 1987
    Kathryn Hellerstein
    Cover of Herzl's Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State
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    Her­zl’s Vision: Theodor Her­zl and the Foun­da­tion of the Jew­ish State
    Shlomo Avineri; Haim Watzman, trans.
    Cover of Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War
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    Con­script­ed Slaves: Hun­gar­i­an Jew­ish Forced Labor­ers on the East­ern Front Dur­ing the Sec­ond World War
    Robert Rozett
    Cover of Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District
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    Gates of Tears: The Holo­caust in the Lublin District
    David Silberklang
    Cover of Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer
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    Eich­mann Before Jerusalem: The Unex­am­ined Life of a Mass Murderer
    Bettina Stangneth; Ruth Martin, trans.
    Cover of Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience
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    Jew­ish Mad Men: Adver­tis­ing and the Design of the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Experience
    Ker­ri P. Steinberg
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    Stum­bling on Jew­ish Sup­pli­ers to the Confederacy

    Adam D. Mendel­sohn is Direc­tor of the Pearlstine/​Lipov Cen­ter for South­ern Jew­ish Cul­ture and Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Jew­ish Stud­ies at the Col­lege of Charleston. His…
    Adam D. Mendelsohn
    December 16, 2014
    Essay

    Where Should We Have Gone?

    Ear­li­er this week, Adam Rovn­er wrote about the top five alter­na­tive Jew­ish home­lands that he did­n’t explore in his new book, In the Shad­ow of Zion: Promised Lands…
    Adam Rovn­er
    December 10, 2014
    Essay

    Top 5 Promised Lands I Didn’t Explore

    Adam Rovn­er is the author of In the Shad­ow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel out this week from NYU Press. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
    Adam Rovn­er
    December 8, 2014
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    Encoun­ter­ing Ellis Island: How Euro­pean Immi­grants Entered America
    Ronald H. Bayor
    Cover of The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire
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    The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Suc­cess in Amer­i­ca and the British Empire
    Adam D. Mendelsohn
    Cover of Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
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    Saha­ran Jews and the Fate of French Algeria
    Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
    Cover of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform
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    Mediter­ranean Enlight­en­ment: Livor­nese Jews, Tus­can Cul­ture, and Eigh­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Reform
    Francesca Bregoli
    Cover of Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader
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    Risk­ing Every­thing: A Free­dom Sum­mer Reader
    Michael Edmonds, ed.
    Cover of Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History
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    Ben­ny Good­man & Ted­dy Wil­son: Tak­ing the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History
    Lesa Cline-Ransome; James Ransome, illus.
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