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Cover of Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
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Night of the Assas­sins: The Untold Sto­ry of Hitler’s Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin
Howard Blum
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In the Caul­dron: Ter­ror, Ten­sion, and the Amer­i­can Ambas­sador’s Strug­gle to Avoid Pearl Harbor
Lew Paper
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The Unfath­omable Ascent: How Hitler Came to Power
Peter Ross Range
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The Genius of Women: From Over­looked to Chang­ing The World
Jan­ice Kaplan
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No Past Tense: Love and Sur­vival in the Shad­ow of the Holocaust
D. Z. Stone
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Ver­i­tas: A Har­vard Pro­fes­sor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
Ariel Sabar
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Fic­tion
Splitsville
Howard Akler
Cover of Tough Luck: Sid Luckman, Murder, Inc., and the Rise of the Modern NFL
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Tough Luck: Sid Luck­man, Mur­der, Inc., and the Rise of the Mod­ern NFL
R. D. Rosen
Cover of The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah
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The Leg­end of Safed: Life and Fan­ta­sy in the City of Kabbalah
 Eli Yassif, Haim Watzman (trans.)
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Masa­da: From Jew­ish Revolt to Mod­ern Myth
Jodi Mag­ness
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The JDC at 100: A Cen­tu­ry of Humanitarianism 
Avi­noam J. Patt
Ati­na Grossman
Lin­da G. Levi
Maud S. Mandel
Essay

Of Mon­sters and Men­schen: A Typol­o­gy of Jew­ish Monsters

Joela Jacobs
July 15, 2019
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The Kosher Capones: A His­to­ry of Chicago’s Jew­ish Gangsters
Joe Kraus
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Uproot­ed: How 3000 Years of Jew­ish Civ­i­liza­tion in the Arab World Van­ished Overnight
Lyn Julius, Tom Gross (Fwd.)
Essay

Part II: The Lega­cy Continues

Nadine Epstein
July 1, 2019
Interview

Queer Iden­ti­ty in Jew­ish His­to­ry: An Inter­view with Noam Sienna 

An inter­view about an anthol­o­gy explor­ing mar­gin­al­ized voic­es in Jew­ish history

Sacha Lamb
June 11, 2019
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