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History

Cover of The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969)
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The Jews of Key West: Smug­glers, Cig­ar Mak­ers, and Rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies (1823−1969)
Arlo Haskell
Essay

Five His­toric Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties You’ve (Prob­a­bly) Nev­er Heard Of

Shari Rabin
December 19, 2017
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Chil­dren’s
Kristall­nacht (Eye­wit­ness to World War II)
Stephanie Fitzgerald
Cover of A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War
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A Dead­ly Lega­cy: Ger­man Jews and the Great War
Tim Grady
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Non­fic­tion
Jews on the Fron­tier: Reli­gion and Mobil­i­ty in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry America
Shari Rabin
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Hitler’s Amer­i­can Mod­el: The Unit­ed States and the Mak­ing of Nazi Race Law
James Q. Whitman
Essay

On Jew­ish Com­e­dy and Amer­i­can Jew­ish Success

Jere­my Dauber
November 3, 2017
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The Sovi­et-Israeli War, 1967 – 1973: The USSR’s Mil­i­tary Inter­ven­tion in the Egypt­ian-Israeli Conflict
Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
Essay

Can You Change Your Fate if You Change Your Hat?

Jere­my Dauber
November 1, 2017
Essay

Jew­ish Com­e­dy as a Means of Survival

Jere­my Dauber
October 30, 2017
Essay

Fic­tion and Physics

Car­ol Zoref
October 13, 2017
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Chil­dren’s
Tun­nel­ing to Free­dom: The Great Escape from Sta­lag Luft III
Nel Yomtov
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Chil­dren’s
Out­run­ning the Nazis: The Brave Escape of Resis­tance Fight­er Sven Somme
Matt Chandler
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Chil­dren’s
Behind Ene­my Lines: The Escape of Robert Grimes with the Comet Line
Matt Chandler
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The Netanyahu Years
Ben Caspit; Ora Cummings, trans.
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Strange Bird: The Alba­tross Press and the Third Reich
Michele K. Troy
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