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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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    Splitsville
    Howard Akler
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    Tough Luck: Sid Luck­man, Mur­der, Inc., and the Rise of the Mod­ern NFL
    R. D. Rosen
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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
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    Amer­i­ca’s Jew­ish Women: A His­to­ry from Colo­nial Times to Today
    Pamela S. Nadell
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    A Rain­bow Thread: An Anthol­o­gy of Queer Jew­ish Texts from the First Cen­tu­ry to 1969
    Noam Sien­na
    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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    The Ital­ian Exe­cu­tion­ers: The Geno­cide of the Jews of Italy
    Simon Levis Sullam; Oona Smyth and Claudia Patane, trans.
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    The Faith­ful Spy: Diet­rich Bon­ho­ef­fer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
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