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    History

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    High Noon: The Hol­ly­wood Black­list and the Mak­ing of an Amer­i­can Classic
    Glenn Frankel
    Essay

    The Jews of the Blacklist

    Glenn Frankel
    February 6, 2017
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    The Book Thieves
    Anders Rydell; Henning Koch, trans.
    Essay

    Lion Feucht­wanger: An Author Nev­er Out of Print But No Longer Known

    Alan Judd
    February 1, 2017
    Essay

    A Trav­el­er With­out a Ticket

    Alan Judd
    January 30, 2017
    Essay

    On Dedication(s)

    Peter Hayes
    January 17, 2017
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    The Holo­caust in Croatia
    Ivo Goldstein and Slavko Goldstein
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    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
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    Break­ing the Chains of Gravity
    Amy Shira Teitel
    Cover of Anti-Jewish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Royal Response 1391-1392
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    Anti-Jew­ish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Roy­al Response 1391 – 1392
    Benjamin R. Gampel
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    The Secret His­to­ry of World War II
    Neil Kagan and Stephen G. Hyslop; Kenneth W. Rendell, fwd.
    Cover of Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece
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    Jew­ish Saloni­ca: Between the Ottoman Empire and Mod­ern Greece
    Devin E. Naar
    Cover of Extraterritorial Dreams: Europe Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century
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    Extrater­ri­to­r­i­al Dreams: Europe Cit­i­zen­ship, Sephar­di Jews, and the Ottoman Twen­ti­eth Century
    Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
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    We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Stu­dent Resis­tance Move­ment That Defied Adolf Hitler
    Russell Freedman
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    Jew­ish Mag­ic before the Rise of Kabbalah
    Yuval Harari
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    Ire­na’s Chil­dren: A True Sto­ry of Courage
    Tillar Mazzeo; adapted by Mary Cronk Farrell
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