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    Will Eis­ner: A Spir­it­ed Life
    Bob Andelman
    Essay

    Albert Ein­stein: A High­ly Com­mit­ted Jew by Her­itage and Origin

    Ear­li­er this week, Har­ry Ostr­er wrote about a series of sci­en­tists who con­tributed to our con­tem­po­rary under­stand­ing of Jew­ish­ness. He has been blog­ging here…
    Har­ry Ostrer
    July 1, 2012
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    Fire and Song: The Sto­ry of Luis de Car­va­jal and the Mex­i­can Inquisition
    Anna Lanyon
    Cover of You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
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    You Need a School­house: Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Julius Rosen­wald, and the Build­ing of Schools for the Seg­re­gat­ed South
    Stephanie Deutsch
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    Irv­ing Berlin’s Amer­i­can Musi­cal Theater
    Jeffrey Magee
    Essay

    Chaim She­ba: Iden­ti­fy­ing Founder Effects for Jew­ish Genet­ic Diseases

    In Lega­cy: A Genet­ic His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Peo­ple, Har­ry Ostr­er wrote about a series of sci­en­tists who con­tributed to our con­tem­po­rary under­stand­ing of…
    Har­ry Ostrer
    June 27, 2012
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    The Book of Telling: Trac­ing the Secret of My Father’s Lives
    Sharona Muir
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    Nathan May­er Roth­schild and the Cre­ation of a Dynasty: The Crit­i­cal Years 1806 – 1816
    Herbert H. Kaplan
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    The Mes­sen­ger
    Yannick Haenel; Ian Monk, trans.
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    A Russ­ian Jew of Blooms­bury: The Life and Times of Samuel Koteliansky
    Galya Diment
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    The Escape of Sig­mund Freud
    David Cohen
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    Read­ing Char­lotte Salomon
    Michael P. Steinberg; Monica Bohm-Duchen, eds.
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    Sharon: The Life of a Leader
    Gilad Sharon; Mitch Ginsburg, trans.
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    The Nazi Séance: The Strange Sto­ry of The Jew­ish Psy­chic in Hitler’s Circle
    Arthur J. Magida
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    Marc Cha­gall and the Lost Jew­ish World
    Benjamin Harshav
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    Wolf Trapped: The Life and Death of a Young Artist in Hitler’s Europe
    Robert Follett as told by Peter Natan
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