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    What Kind of a Name is Osnos?

    Peter Osnos
    August 30, 2021
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    Irma Stern and the Racial Para­dox of South African Mod­ern Art: Audac­i­ties of Color
    LaN­i­tra M. Berger
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    Bab­ka, Boulou, & Blintzes: Jew­ish Choco­late Recipes from around the World
    Michael Lev­en­thal
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    War­saw Ghet­to Police: The Jew­ish Order Ser­vice dur­ing the Nazi Occupation
    Katarzyna Person
    Essay

    Alexan­der Hamil­ton and His Jew­ish Witnesses

    Andrew Por­wanch­er
    August 16, 2021
    Essay

    Otto War­burg’s Jew­ish Identity

    Sam Apple
    August 16, 2021
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    To Repair a Bro­ken World: The Life of Hen­ri­et­ta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
    Dvora Hacohen
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    The Pass­port as Home: Com­fort in Rootlessness
    Andrei S. Markovits
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    Beyond the Syn­a­gogue: Jew­ish Nos­tal­gia as Reli­gious Practice
    Rachel B. Gross
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    Cul­ture of Fra­grance: Jew­ish Per­fumers in the Twen­ti­eth Century

    Tim­o­thy Schaffert
    July 26, 2021
    Jews and the Olympics
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    Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the Amer­i­can Dream 
    Michael Shnayerson
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    Tran­scend­ing Dystopia: Music, Mobil­i­ty, and the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty in Ger­many, 1945 – 1989
    Tina Frühauf
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    Sav­ing Lady Lib­er­ty: Joseph Pulitzer’s Fight for the Stat­ue of Liberty
    Claudia Friddell, Stacy Innerst (Illustrator)
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    A Jew­ish Traitor

    Mau­rice Samuels
    July 12, 2021
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    Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
    Ephraim Shoham-Steiner
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