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    History

    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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    Non­fic­tion
    The Netanyahu Years
    Ben Caspit; Ora Cummings, trans.
    Cover of Strange Bird: The Albatross Press and the Third Reich
    Non­fic­tion
    Strange Bird: The Alba­tross Press and the Third Reich
    Michele K. Troy
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    The Malm­e­dy Mas­sacre: The War Crimes Tri­al Controversy
    Steven P. Remy
    Essay

    How Mem­o­ry Changes Our View of History

    Neville Frankel
    August 14, 2017
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    The Ori­gin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Root­less Age
    Steven Weitzman
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    The Star of David: A Pop­u­lar His­to­ry of the Mys­te­ri­ous Hexagram
    Robert A. Norman
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    “We Are Jews Again”: Jew­ish Activism in the Sovi­et Union
    Yuli Kosharovsky; Stefani Hoffman, trans.; Ann Komaromi, ed. & intro.
    Essay

    An Empha­sis on Leaders

    Men­achem Z. Rosensaft
    June 16, 2017
    Essay

    The First Polit­i­cal Body for Jews

    Men­achem Z. Rosensaft
    June 14, 2017
    Essay

    WJC: An Orga­ni­za­tion with a Personality

    Men­achem Z. Rosensaft
    June 12, 2017
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    The World Jew­ish Con­gress, 1936 – 2016
    Menachem Z. Rosensaft, ed.; Ronald S. Lauder, fwd.
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    Unit­ed Nation: The Human­i­tar­i­an Spir­it Of Israel
    David Kramer
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