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    Cover of Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
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    Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holo­caust Ends
    Lin­da Kinstler
    Interview

    ‘Our Shared His­to­ry’: A Con­ver­sa­tion Between Alyson Rich­man and Shaunna Edwards

    Shaunna Edwards, Alyson Rich­man
    August 29, 2022
    Recommended Reading

    JBC Book­shelf: Fall 2022

    Simona Zaret­sky
    August 29, 2022
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    Pro­fes­sor of Apoc­a­lypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes
    Jer­ry Z. Muller
    Cover of Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism
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    Chris­t­ian Suprema­cy: Reck­on­ing with the Roots of Anti­semitism and Racism
    Mag­da Teter
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    The Lit­er­ary Mafia: Jews, Pub­lish­ing, and Post­war Amer­i­can Literature
    Josh Lam­bert
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    Jews in Amer­i­can Publishing

    Josh Lam­bert
    July 25, 2022
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    Zabar’s: A Fam­i­ly Sto­ry, with Recipes
    Lori Zabar
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    The Watch­mak­ers: A Sto­ry of Broth­er­hood, Hope, and Sur­vival Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Scott Lenga
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    Helmi’s Shad­ow: A Jour­ney of Sur­vival From Rus­sia to East Asia to the Amer­i­can West
    David Hor­gan
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    Tears Over Rus­sia: A Search for Fam­i­ly and the Lega­cy of Ukraine’s Pogroms
    Lisa Brahin
    Essay

    Dig­ging Into Your Family’s Roots: Why You Should Chase History 

    Lisa Brahin
    June 21, 2022
    Essay

    ‘The Black Swan of Israel’: Remem­ber­ing Else Lasker-Schüler

    James J. Conway
    June 20, 2022
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    Zion­ism: An Emo­tion­al State
    Derek J. Penslar
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    The Jew­ish Eigh­teenth Cen­tu­ry, Vol­ume 2: A Euro­pean Biog­ra­phy, 1750 – 1800
    Shmuel Feiner; Jeffrey M. Green, trans.
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    Trans Tal­mud: Androg­y­nes and Eunuchs in Rab­binic Literature
    Max K. Strassfeld
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