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Cover of The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

Cover of Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture

Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture

Cover of The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away

Cover of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Heather Dune Macadam

Cover of The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

Cover of How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters

How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters

Cover of A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America

A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America

Cover of The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

Roxane van Iperen

Cover of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918 – 1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Jeffrey Veidlinger

Cover of Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

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 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