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Cover of Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible

Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible

Michael Visontay

Cover of The Woman With Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & The Greatest Art Heist That Never Was

The Woman With Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & The Greatest Art Heist That Never Was

Jonathan Lackman

Cover of Finding Ruby: The Bright and Dark Sides of a Family’s Fervent Idealism

Finding Ruby: The Bright and Dark Sides of a Family’s Fervent Idealism

Richard Rothman

Cover of Stories They Never Told Us

Stories They Never Told Us

Janette Silverman

Cover of Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal

Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship, and Betrayal

Matthew Goodman

Cover of Unveiled: Inside Iran's #WomanLifeFreedom Revolt

Unveiled: Inside Iran’s #WomanLifeFreedom Revolt

Jonathan Harounoff

Cover of Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death

Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death

Cover of Becoming Caitlin Clark: The Unknown Origin Story of a Modern Basketball Superstar

Becoming Caitlin Clark: The Unknown Origin Story of a Modern Basketball Superstar

Cover of We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality

We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality

Jill Elaine Hasday

Cover of Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy

Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy

Cover of No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

Cover of Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

Arthur J. Magida

Cover of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Hannah Pollin-Galay

Cover of Bad Jew: A Family's Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu's Israel

Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel

Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.

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Excerpt — Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

Ken Krimstein

August 19, 2024

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Making the Revolution Jewish

Adam Jortner

August 19, 2024