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    Cover of Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father's German Village
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    Good Neigh­bors, Bad Times Revis­it­ed: New Echoes of My Father’s Ger­man Village
    Mimi Schwartz
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    Israel: A Sim­ple Guide to the Most Mis­un­der­stood Coun­try on Earth
    Noa Tish­by
    Cover of German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighborhood in the Holy City
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    Ger­man Jerusalem: The Remark­able Life of a Ger­man-Jew­ish Neigh­bor­hood in the Holy City
    Thomas Sparr, Stephen Brown (Translator)
    Cover of Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews
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    Ashke­nazi Herbal­ism: Redis­cov­er­ing the Herbal Tra­di­tions of East­ern Euro­pean Jews
    Deatra Cohen
    Adam Siegel
    Cover of Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
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    Plun­der: A Mem­oir of Fam­i­ly Prop­er­ty and Nazi Treasure
    Men­achem Kaiser
    Cover of Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
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    Paper Bul­lets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
    Jef­frey H. Jackson
    Cover of The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
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    The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ulti­mate­ly Even Neg­li­gi­ble Episode in the His­to­ry of a Very Famous Family
    Joshua Cohen
    Essay

    A Return to the Source: On Trans­lat­ing Tobie Nathan’s ​‘A Land Like You’

    Joyce Zonana
    June 14, 2021
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    The Jew­ish Body: A History
    Robert Jütte, Elizabeth Bredeck (Translator)
    Poetry

    Ak-mechet

    David Osachy
    June 7, 2021
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    The Peo­ple’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Jus­tice With Art
    Cynthia Levinson, Evan Turk (Illustrator)
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    Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen

    Men­achem Z. Rosensaft
    May 24, 2021
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    Rav­en­ous: Otto War­burg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Can­cer-Diet Connection
    Sam Apple
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    Let­ters to Camondo
    Edmund de Waal
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    Excerpt: Bun­ga­low Colonies and Mahjong Summers

    Annelise Heinz
    May 3, 2021
    Essay

    Shak­ing Up the Tanakh

    Ali­son L. Joseph
    May 3, 2021
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