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    War­saw 1944: Hitler, Himm­ler and the War­saw Uprising
    Alexandra Richie
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    Knish: In Search of the Jew­ish Soul Food
    Lau­ra Silver
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    The For­ma­tion of the Jew­ish Canon
    Timothy H. Lim
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    The Fan­tas­tic Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Dr. Wei­gl: How Two Brave Sci­en­tists Bat­tled Typhus and Sab­o­taged the Nazis
    Arthur Allen
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    Chang­ing Times, Chang­ing Let­ters, and Mov­ing Forward

    Ear­li­er this week, Liana Finck wrote about how she dis­cov­ered A Bin­tel Brief and shared the his­to­ry behind the col­umn. Her graph­ic nov­el, A Bin­tel…
    Liana Finck
    April 18, 2014
    Essay

    Find­ing a Sto­ry to Tell

    Ear­li­er this week, Liana Finck shared the his­to­ry behind the For­ward​’s Bin­tel Brief col­umn. Her graph­ic nov­el, A Bin­tel Brief, was pub­lished by Ecco. She…
    Liana Finck
    April 17, 2014
    Essay

    The Begin­nings of A Bin­tel Brief

    Liana Finck is an emerg­ing graph­ic nov­el­ist. She was a Ful­bright Fel­low in Brus­sels in 2009-10 and is a Six Points Fel­low in New York. She pub­lish­es in…
    Liana Finck
    April 14, 2014
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    The Clan­des­tine His­to­ry of the Kovno Jew­ish Ghet­to Police
    Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
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    Dear Mendl, Dear Rey­zl: Yid­dish Let­ter Man­u­als from Rus­sia and America
    Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
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    A Bin­tel Brief: Love and Long­ing in Old New York
    Liana Finck
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    Hanns and Rudolf: The True Sto­ry of the Ger­man Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kom­man­dant of Auschwitz
    Thomas Harding
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    How the Jews Defeat­ed Hitler: Explod­ing the Myth of Jew­ish Pas­siv­i­ty in the Face of Nazism
    Benjamin Ginsberg
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    Lawrence in Ara­bia: War, Deceit, Impe­r­i­al Fol­ly and the Mak­ing of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East
    Scott Anderson
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    An Unusu­al Rela­tion­ship: Evan­gel­i­cal Chris­tians and Jews
    Yaakov Ariel
    Interview

    Inter­view: David Laskin

    by Elise Coop­erDavid Laskin’s book, The Fam­i­ly: Three Jour­neys Into the Heart of the Twen­ti­eth Cen­tu­ry, is a grip­ping tale that traces the roots of the…
    Elise Coop­er
    February 25, 2014
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    The Sto­ry of the Jews: Find­ing the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
    Simon Schama
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