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History

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Jew­ish Text
The Promise of Lib­er­ty: A Passover Haggada
Stu­art Halpern
Jacob Kupi­et­zky
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Non­fic­tion
Speak­ing Yid­dish to Chick­ens: Holo­caust Sur­vivors on South Jer­sey Poul­try Farms
Seth Stern
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Non­fic­tion
Between the Wires: The Janows­ka Camp and the Holo­caust in Lviv
Wait­man Wade Beorn
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Non­fic­tion
Impos­si­ble Takes Longer: 75 Years After Its Cre­ation, Has Israel Ful­filled Its Founders’ Dreams?
Daniel Gordis
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Chil­dren’s
Rose Spoke Out: The Sto­ry of Rose Schneiderman
Emma Carlson Berne; Giovanni Abeille, illus.
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The Shama­ma Case: Con­test­ing Cit­i­zen­ship across the Mod­ern Mediterranean
Jes­si­ca M. Marglin
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Chil­dren’s
The Mir­a­cle Seed
Mar­tin Lemelman
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The Diary Keep­ers: World War II in the Nether­lands, as Writ­ten by the Peo­ple Who Lived Through It 
Nina Sie­gal
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JBC Staff
March 13, 2023
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Mai­monides: Faith in Reason
Alber­to Manguel
Essay

A Haunt­ed Judge Keeps His Promise

Mar­tin J. Siegel
March 13, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
The Ori­gins of Judaism: An Archae­o­log­i­cal-His­tor­i­cal Reappraisal
Yonatan Adler
Essay

Find­ing Anna Rosenberg

Christo­pher C. Gorham
February 27, 2023
Interview—From the Journal

‘Ves­sels for Per­son­al His­to­ry’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Michael W. Twit­ty, Shaunna J. Edwards, and Alyson Richman

Lau­ra Arnold Leibman
February 24, 2023
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Non­fic­tion
Israel’s Moment: Inter­na­tion­al Sup­port for and Oppo­si­tion to Estab­lish­ing the Jew­ish State, 1945 – 1949
Jef­frey Herf
Essay

‘Who Mur­dered Arloso­roff?’: Exam­in­ing an Unsolved 1933 Killing in Palestine

Jonathan Wil­son
February 13, 2023
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