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Essay

Spending a Fortnight in Jew Town, Kochi

Shastri Akella

July 10, 2023

Cover of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

Cover of February 1933: The Winter of Literature

February 1933: The Winter of Literature

Uwe Wittstock; Daniel Bowles, trans.

Cover of The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz

The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz

Zalmen Gradowski; Rubye Monet, trans.

Excerpt

The Buried Treasures of the Paper Brigade

Meryl Frank

June 26, 2023

Cover of The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America

The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America

Cover of The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

Walter Russell Mead

Cover of Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Unearthed: A Lost Actress, a Forbidden Book, and a Search for Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Cover of Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps

Sing, Memory: The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Saved the Music of the Nazi Camps

Cover of Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome

Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome

Fredric Brandfon

Cover of The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty

Natalie Livingstone

Cover of Britain's Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety

Britain’s Jews: Confidence, Maturity, Anxiety

Cover of Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe

Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe

Cover of Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

Essay

Jews of the Spanish Homeland: Finding My Sephardic Family in a 1929 Film

Elizabeth Graver

April 10, 2023

Cover of The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada

The Promise of Liberty: A Passover Haggada

Jacob Kupietzky