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    Prej­u­dice Porn: Images of Jews in Amer­i­can Art, 1880 – 1940

    Ear­li­er this week, Matthew Baigell wrote about social con­cern and left pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can art. He is the author of a recent­ly pub­lished book on the top­ic…
    Matthew Baigell
    June 30, 2015
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    Lead­er­ship and Con­flict: Ten­sions in Medieval and Ear­ly Mod­ern Jew­ish His­to­ry and Culture
    Marc Saperstein
    Essay

    Social Con­cern and Left Pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can Art

    Matthew Baigell is Pro­fes­sor Emer­i­tus in the Depart­ment of Art His­to­ry at Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty. He is the author of numer­ous books, includ­ing Amer­i­can Artists,…
    Matthew Baigell
    June 29, 2015
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    Mus­lims and Jews in France: His­to­ry of a Conflict
    Maud S. Mandel
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    The Sto­ry of an Under­ground: The Resis­tance of the Jews of Kovno in the Sec­ond World War
    Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown; Jessica Setbon, trans.
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    Anne Frank and the Remem­ber­ing Tree
    Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Erika Steiskal, illus.
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    The Man Who Stalked Ein­stein: How Nazi Sci­en­tist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of History
    Bruce J. Hillman
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    The Nazi Offi­cer’s Wife: How One Jew­ish Woman Sur­vived the Holocaust
    Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin
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    Tra­di­tion­al Soci­ety in Tran­si­tion: The Yemeni Jew­ish Experience
    Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman
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    The Catskills: Its His­to­ry and How It Changed America
    Raphael D. Silver
    Stephen M. Silverman
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    Read­ing Claudius: A Mem­oir in Two Parts
    Car­o­line Heller
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    Hus­tling Hitler: The Jew­ish Vaude­vil­lian Who Fooled the Fuhrer
    Wal­ter Shapiro
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    No Bet­ter Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extra­or­di­nary Sto­ry of Courage and Suvi­val in WWII
    Robert S. Weintraub
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    1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR-Two Tales of Pol­i­tics Betray­al and Unlike­ly Destiny
    David Pietrusza
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    Anony­mous Sol­diers: The Strug­gle For Israel, 1917 – 1947
    Bruce Hoff­man
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    The Jew­ish Olympics: The His­to­ry of the Mac­cabi­ah Games
    Ron Kaplan
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