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    Invent­ing Zacharias: Writ­ing Mizrahi Stories

    Jas­min Attia
    July 10, 2023
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    Spend­ing a Fort­night in Jew Town, Kochi

    Shas­tri Akella
    July 10, 2023
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    Birchers: How the John Birch Soci­ety Rad­i­cal­ized the Amer­i­can Right
    Matthew Dallek
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    The Buried Trea­sures of the Paper Brigade

    Meryl Frank
    June 26, 2023
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    Feb­ru­ary 1933: The Win­ter of Literature
    Uwe Wittstock; Daniel Bowles, trans.
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    The Last Con­so­la­tion Van­ished: The Tes­ti­mo­ny of a Son­derkom­man­do in Auschwitz
    Zalmen Gradowski; Rubye Monet, trans.
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    The Jews of Sum­mer: Sum­mer Camp and Jew­ish Cul­ture in Post­war America
    San­dra Fox
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    The Arc of a Covenant: The Unit­ed States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jew­ish People
    Wal­ter Rus­sell Mead
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    Sing, Mem­o­ry: The Remark­able Sto­ry of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps
    Makana Eyre
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    Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a For­bid­den Book, and a Search for Life in the Shad­ow of the Holocaust
    Meryl Frank
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    Inti­mate Strangers: A His­to­ry of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome
    Fredric Brand­fon
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    The Women of Roth­schild: The Untold Sto­ry of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty
    Natal­ie Livingstone
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    Britain’s Jews: Con­fi­dence, Matu­ri­ty, Anxiety
    Har­ry Freedman
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    Diary of a Black Jew­ish Mes­si­ah: The Six­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Jour­ney of David Reubeni through Africa, the Mid­dle East, and Europe 
    Alan Ver­skin
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    The Promise of Lib­er­ty: A Passover Haggada
    Stu­art Halpern
    Jacob Kupi­et­zky
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