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Shadow Strike: Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power

Josephus’s The Jewish War: A Biography

The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz

Jack Fairweather

The Song of the Jade Lily

Cosella Wayne

Jonathan D. Sarna

Essay

Part II: Take a Skeleton Out of the Closet and Dance with it

Talia Carner

September 2, 2019

Shimri’s Big Idea

Elka Weber (auth.), Inbal Gigi Bousidan (illus.)

Essay

Part I: Sholem Aleichem and Me

Talia Carner

September 2, 2019

Splitsville

Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL

The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah

 Eli Yassif, Haim Watzman (trans.)

Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth

The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism

Avinoam J. Patt

The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters

Essay

Of Monsters and Menschen: A Typology of Jewish Monsters

Joela Jacobs

July 15, 2019

Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight

Lyn Julius, Tom Gross (Fwd.)