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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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    Tales from the Bor­der­lands: Mak­ing and Unmak­ing the Gali­cian Past
    Omer Bar­tov
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    An Improb­a­ble Life: My Father’s Escape from Sovi­et Russia
    Karine Rashkovsky
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    Gen­naRose Nethercott
    September 12, 2022
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