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Cover of The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World’s Most Notorious Terrorists

Cover of The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

Cover of Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty

Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty

Joanne Goldblum

Cover of Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers

Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers

Cover of Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel

Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel

Cover of The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

Essay

A Novel Opening

Rachel Beanland

August 10, 2020

Essay

A Brief History of Balkan Jews and the Story of the Synagogue of Zagreb

Michele Levy

August 3, 2020

Cover of Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon

Cover of The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

Jonathan Kaufman

Essay

A ‘Legacy of Blood’ Explored with Elissa Bemporad

Elissa Bemporad

July 20, 2020

Cover of Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South

Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South

Cover of The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue

The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue

Interview

JBC Authors at the Table: Sue Eisenfeld

June 18, 2020

Cover of A New Hasidism: Roots

A New Hasidism: Roots

Arthur Green and Ariel Evan Mayse, eds.

Cover of Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century

Sarah Abrevaya Stein