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Berlin 1936: Six­teen Days in August
Oliver Hilmes; Jefferson Chase, trans.
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Italy’s Jews from Eman­ci­pa­tion to Fascism
Shira Klein
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How Hitler Was Made: Ger­many and the Rise of the Per­fect Nazi
Cory Tay­lor
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Rush: Rev­o­lu­tion, Mad­ness, and Ben­jamin Rush, the Vision­ary Doc­tor Who Became a Found­ing Father
Stephen Fried
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The Last Palace: Europe’s Tur­bu­lent Cen­tu­ry Through Five Lives and One House
Nor­man Eisen
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Let­ters to My Pales­tin­ian Neighbor
Yos­si Klein Halevi
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Chil­dren of Nazis: The Sons and Daugh­ters of Himm­ler, Göring, Höss, Men­gele, and Oth­ers— Liv­ing with a Father’s Mon­strous Legacy
Tania Cras­ni­an­s­ki
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The Joe Shus­ter Sto­ry: The Artist Behind Superman
Julian Voloj
Thomas Campi
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The Stakes of His­to­ry: On the Use and Abuse of Jew­ish His­to­ry for Life
David N. Myers
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Hasidism: A New History
David Biale et al
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Wern­er Scholem: A Ger­man Life (Jew­ish Cul­ture and Contexts)
Mirjam Zadoff; Dona Geyer, trans.
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Sewing the Fab­ric of State­hood: Gar­ment Unions, Amer­i­can Labor, and the Estab­lish­ment of the State of Israel
Adam M. Howard
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Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
Steven J. Zipperstein
Essay

On Jews and Communism

Steven J. Zipperstein
April 6, 2018
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The Telling Image: Shapes of Chang­ing Times
Lois Far­fel Stark
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The Cho­sen Wars: How Judaism Became an Amer­i­can Religion
Steven R. Weisman
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