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    The Found­ing Fathers of Zionism
    Benzion Netanyahu
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    Against the Grain: Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­als in Hard Times
    Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
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    Snow in August
    Pete Hamill
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    Jew­ish Iden­ti­ties in Post­com­mu­nist Rus­sia and Ukraine: An Uncer­tain Ethnicity
    Zvi Gitelman
    Essay

    Jews and Slav­ery: Isaac Car­do­zo and Lydia Weston

    Ear­li­er this week, Sabra Wald­fo­gel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most emi­nent Jews in Geor­gia in the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry, and Clara Solomon, a Jew­ish girl…
    Sabra Wald­fo­gel
    August 1, 2014
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    The Pianist: The Extra­or­di­nary True Sto­ry of One Man’s Sur­vival in War­saw, 1939 – 1945
    Wladyslaw Szpilman
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    The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jor­dan and the Pales­tini­ans in the After­math of the June 1967 War
    Avi Raz
    Essay

    Jews and Slav­ery: Clara Solomon and Lucy Lewis

    Ear­li­er this week, Sabra Wald­fo­gel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most emi­nent Jews in Geor­gia in the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry. She has recent­ly pub­lished Slave and…
    Sabra Wald­fo­gel
    July 30, 2014
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    Mila 18
    Leon Uris
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    In the Shad­ow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jew­ish Life in Sovi­et Ukraine
    Jeffrey Veidlinger
    Essay

    Jew­ish His­to­ry and Jew­ish Memory

    Ear­li­er this week, Stephanie Feld­man wrote about her favorite Wan­der­ing Jews. Her debut nov­el, The Angel of Loss­es, will be pub­lished by Ecco on July 29th. She has been…
    Stephanie Feld­man
    July 17, 2014
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    Shtetl: A Ver­nac­u­lar Intel­lec­tu­al History
    Jeffrey Shandler
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    The Gold­en Age Shtetl: A New His­to­ry of Jew­ish Life in East Europe
    Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
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    A Fatal Bal­anc­ing Act: The Dilem­ma of the Reich Asso­ci­a­tion of Jews in Ger­many, 1939 – 1945
    Beate Meyer
    Essay

    My Favorite Wan­der­ing Jews

    Stephanie Feld­man is a grad­u­ate of Barnard Col­lege. Her debut nov­el, The Angel of Loss­es, will be pub­lished by Ecco on July 29th. She will be blog­ging here all week…
    Stephanie Feld­man
    July 15, 2014
    Essay

    Some­times His­to­ry Throws Me A Bone

    This week, Rober­ta Rich, the author of The Mid­wife of Venice and a new book, The Harem Mid­wife, blogs for The Post­script on the the amaz­ing (true!) sto­ries that…
    Rober­ta Rich
    July 15, 2014
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