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    History

    Cover of The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood
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    The Boys in the Light: An Extra­or­di­nary World War II Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Faith, and Brotherhood
    Nina Will­ner
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    Togeth­er in Man­za­nar: The True Sto­ry of a Japan­ese Jew­ish Fam­i­ly in an Amer­i­can Con­cen­tra­tion Camp
    Tra­cy Slater
    Essay

    The Female Jew­ish Snipers Who Inspired ​“The Night Sparrow”

    Shelly Sanders
    July 2, 2025
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    Peo­ple of the Image: Jews and Art
    Marc Michael Epstein
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    The Jew­ish South: An Amer­i­can History
    Shari Rabin
    Cover of The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
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    The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
    Jacob Daniels
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    Poet­ry
    Laugh­ing in Yiddish
    Jamie Wendt
    Cover of Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land
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    Melt­ing Point: Fam­i­ly, Mem­o­ry, and the Search for a Promised Land
    Rachel Cock­erell
    Essay

    Cor­rect­ing the Injus­tice of For­get­ting: The Black Ange­lenos of Sug­ar Hill

    Kyra Davis Lurie
    June 9, 2025
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    Life Must Go On: The Remark­able Sto­ry of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghet­to, and the Trag­ic Fate of Lithua­ni­a’s Jews
    Bea Lurie
    Essay

    ‘Radi­cle’ Entan­gle­ments: Recov­er­ing Jew­ish Women’s Folk Heal­ing Knowledge

    Deatra Cohen
    June 2, 2025
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    Amer­i­can Mac­cabee: Theodore Roo­sevelt and the Jews
    Andrew Por­wanch­er
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    Visu­al Arts
    The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
    Michele L. Frederick
    Abi­gail Rapoport
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    Visu­al Arts
    The His­to­ry of Jerusalem: An Illus­trat­ed Sto­ry of 4,000 Years
    Vincent Lemire; Christophe Gaultier, illus.
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    The Keep­er of Stories
    Caroline Kusin Pritchard; Selina Alko, illus.
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    Uncov­er­ing Buried His­to­ry: A Deten­tion Cen­ter on the Out­skirts of Alberobello

    Mary Mor­ris
    May 12, 2025
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