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    Cover of The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
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    The Jew­ish Ghet­to and the Visu­al Imag­i­na­tion of Ear­ly Mod­ern Venice
    Dana E. Katz
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    Glob­al Jew­ish Food­ways: A History
    Hasia R. Diner & Simone Cinotto, ed.; Carlo Petrini, foreword
    Cover of Devil's Mile: The Rich, Gritty History of the Bowery
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    Dev­il’s Mile: The Rich, Grit­ty His­to­ry of the Bowery
    Alice Sparberg Alexiou
    Essay

    The His­to­ry Behind a New York City Sub­way Beau­ty Pageant

    Susie Orman Schnall
    July 16, 2018
    Cover of Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
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    Rise and Kill First: The Secret His­to­ry of Israel’s Tar­get­ed Assassinations
    Ronen Bergman
    Cover of Turning Points in Jewish History
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    Turn­ing Points in Jew­ish History
    Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein
    Cover of A Rich Brew: How Cafés Created Modern Jewish Culture
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    A Rich Brew: How Cafés Cre­at­ed Mod­ern Jew­ish Culture
    Shachar M. Pinsker
    Cover of A History of Judaism
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    A His­to­ry of Judaism
    Martin Goodman
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    Cre­at­ing Coher­ence Out of Formlessness

    Bob Gold­farb
    June 7, 2018
    From the Journal

    The Jew­ish Women Writ­ers Who Made Their Mark on Café Culture

    Shachar Pinsker
    May 31, 2018
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    Pen­nies for Heav­en: The His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Syn­a­gogues and Money
    Daniel Judson
    Cover of In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
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    In the Name of Human­i­ty: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
    Max Wal­lace
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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
    Cover of How Hitler Was Made: Germany and the Rise of the Perfect Nazi
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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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