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    Excerpt — Lost Syn­a­gogues of Europe: Paint­ings and Histories

    Andrea Strong­wa­ter
    November 3, 2025
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    Imag­in­ing Ear­ly Amer­i­can Jews
    Michael Hober­man
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    Visu­al Arts
    Lost Syn­a­gogues of Europe: Paint­ings and Histories
    Andrea Strong­wa­ter
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    Anti­semitism, an Amer­i­can Tradition
    Pamela S. Nadell
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    Find­ing the Torah in the Tarot

    Stav Appel
    October 13, 2025
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    Lis­ten­ing to the Silence: Uncov­er­ing the Lives of Jew­ish Female Resis­tance Workers

    Eliz­a­beth R. Hyman
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    Strangers in Bialystok

    Lau­rel Kratochvila
    October 6, 2025
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    The Dev­il’s Cas­tle: Nazi Eugen­ics, Euthana­sia, and How Psy­chi­a­try’s Trou­bled His­to­ry Rever­ber­ates Today
    Susanne Pao­la Antonetta
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    Rad­i­cal Sis­ters: Shirley Tem­ple Black, Rose Kush­n­er, Eve­lyn Laud­er and the Dawn of the Breast Can­cer Movement
    Judith L. Pearson
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    Edward Beren­son
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    Class of 95: A Lit­er­ary Anthol­o­gy on the Assas­si­na­tion of Prime Min­is­ter Yitzhak Rabin
    Barak Sel­la
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    Sabi­na Baral
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    Emil BezverkhnyEmil Pitkin, trans.
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