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The Pope at War: The Secret His­to­ry of Pius XII, Mus­soli­ni, and Hitler 
David I. Kertzer
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The Eleventh Plague: Jews and Pan­demics from the Bible to COVID-19
Jere­my Brown
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Jerusalem Falls: Sev­en Cen­turies of War and Peace
John D. Hosler
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Sav­ing Freud: The Res­cuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
Andrew Nagors­ki
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A Bril­liant Com­mod­i­ty: Dia­monds and Jews in a Mod­ern Setting
Saskia Coenen Snyder
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Excerpt: The New Yorkers

Sam Roberts
December 19, 2022
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We Are Not One: A His­to­ry of America’s Fight Over Israel
Eric Alter­man
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Invent­ing William of Nor­wich: Thomas of Mon­mouth, Anti­semitism, and Lit­er­ary Cul­ture, 1150 – 1200
Heather Blur­ton
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Saved by Schindler: The Life of Celi­na Karp Biniaz 
William B. Friedricks
Mizrahi Sto­ries
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The Glass Plates of Lublin: Found Pho­tographs of a Lost Jew­ish World
Lisa Newman, Piotr Nazaruk, Aaron Lansky, eds.
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The Book of Rev­o­lu­tions: The Bat­tles of Priests, Prophets, and Kings That Birthed the Torah
Edward Feld
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The Sas­soons: The Great Glob­al Mer­chants and the Mak­ing of an Empire 
Joseph Sas­soon
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Excerpt: The Sassoons

Joseph Sas­soon
October 24, 2022
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Ear­ly Jew­ish Cook­books: Essays on Hun­gar­i­an Jew­ish Gas­tro­nom­i­cal History
András Koern­er
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Bad Jews: A His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Pol­i­tics and Identities
Emi­ly Tamkin
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