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    Cover of Racing Against History: The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight Hitler
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    Rac­ing Against His­to­ry: The 1940 Cam­paign for a Jew­ish Army to Fight Hitler
    Rick Rich­man
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    Res­cue Board: The Untold Sto­ry of Amer­i­ca’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
    Rebec­ca Erbelding
    Cover of Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything
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    Aroused: The His­to­ry of Hor­mones and How They Con­trol Just About Everything
    Ran­di Hut­ter Epstein
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    The First Egal­i­tar­i­an Minyan?

    Shari Rabin
    March 27, 2018
    Cover of Dreams of Re-Creation in Jamaica: The Holocaust, Internment, Jewish Refugees in Gibraltar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim
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    Dreams of Re-Cre­ation in Jamaica: The Holo­caust, Intern­ment, Jew­ish Refugees in Gibral­tar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim
    Diana Cooper-Clark
    Essay

    The For­got­ten Jew­ish Ele­ment of the Wom­en’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement

    Joyce Antler
    March 7, 2018
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    Jew­ish Rad­i­cal Fem­i­nism: Voic­es from the Women’s Lib­er­a­tion Movement
    Joyce Antler
    Essay

    Rein­vent­ing the Black-Jew­ish Alliance of the 1960s

    Marc Dollinger
    February 26, 2018
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    Black Pow­er, Jew­ish Pol­i­tics: Rein­vent­ing the Alliance in the 1960s
    Marc Dollinger
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    Maybe Esther: A Fam­i­ly Story
    Katja Petrowskaja;‎ Shelley Frisch, trans.
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    The Great Shift: Encoun­ter­ing God in Bib­li­cal Times
    James L. Kugel
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    Anato­my of a Geno­cide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
    Omer Bar­tov
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    Ambiva­lent Embrace: Jew­ish Upward Mobil­i­ty in Post­war America
    Rachel Kranson
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    What Are the Ten Commandments?
    Yona Zeldis McDonough & Who HQ; Tim Foley, illus.
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    1947: Where Now Begins
    Elisabeth Åsbrink; Fiona Graham, trans.
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    Before All Mem­o­ry is Lost: Wom­en’s Voic­es From the Holocaust
    Myrna Goldenberg
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