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Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: Breaking the Chains of Gravity I’m not sure I can express how much I am looking forward to seeing Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures this weekend: the incredible true story of three black… Nat Bernstein January 5, 2017
Nonfiction Extraterritorial Dreams: Europe Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Nonfiction Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response 1391 – 1392 Benjamin R. Gampel
Nonfiction The Secret History of World War II Neil Kagan and Stephen G. Hyslop; Kenneth W. Rendell, fwd.
Children’s We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler Russell Freedman
Children’s Irena’s Children: A True Story of Courage Tillar Mazzeo; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell
Essay 12 Historic Forverts Front Pages Ezra Glinter is the editor of the new story anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The Forward. With the official… Ezra Glinter December 5, 2016
Essay A Nazi Meeting at Madison Square Garden Earlier this week, Ezra Glinter wrote about the research behind his anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The… Ezra Glinter November 2, 2016
Essay The Beauty of a Biographical Dictionary Ezra Glinter is the editor of the new story anthology Have I Got a Story for You: More Than a Century of Fiction from The Forward, out tomorrow from W.… Ezra Glinter October 31, 2016
