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    History

    Cover of American Journeys: From Ireland to the Pacific Northwest: (1847-1854) Book 1
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    Amer­i­can Jour­neys: From Ire­land to the Pacif­ic North­west: (1847−1854) Book 1
    Richard Alan
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    Con­tra­band: Smug­gling and the Birth of the Amer­i­can Century
    Andrew Wen­der Cohen
    Cover of No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Suvival in WWII
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    No Bet­ter Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extra­or­di­nary Sto­ry of Courage and Suvi­val in WWII
    Robert S. Weintraub
    Cover of 1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR-Two Tales of Politics Betrayal and Unlikely Destiny
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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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    The Archive Thief: The Man Who Sal­vaged French Jew­ish His­to­ry in the Wake of the Holocaust
    Lisa Moses Leff
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    Days of Ticho: Empire, Man­date, Med­i­cine, and Art in the Holy Land
    David Rei­fler
    Cover of Chasing Gold: The Incredible Story of How the Nazis Stole Europe's Bullion
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    Chas­ing Gold: The Incred­i­ble Sto­ry of How the Nazis Stole Europe’s Bullion
    George M. Taber
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    Jew­ish New York: A His­to­ry and Guide to Neigh­bor­hoods, Syn­a­gogues, and Eateries
    Paul M. Kaplan
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    The Mur­der of William of Nor­wich: The Ori­gins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
    E.M. Rose
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    Women of Val­or: Pol­ish Resisters to the Third Reich
    Joanne D. Gilbert
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    Shock­ing Paris: Sou­tine, Cha­gall and the Out­siders of Montparnasse
    Stan­ley Meisler
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    My Wal­len­berg Edu­ca­tion in Budapest, Stock­holm, and Moscow

    Ear­li­er this week, Alan Lelchuk wrote about meet­ing Daniel Paglian­sky, Wal­len­berg’s KGB inter­roga­tor. Lelchuk is the author of the acclaimed nov­els, Amer­i­can…
    Alan Lelchuk
    May 6, 2015
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    Jew­ish Med­ical Resis­tance in the Holocaust
    Michael A. Grodin, ed.
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    Social Con­cern and Left Pol­i­tics in Jew­ish Amer­i­can Art, 1880 – 1940
    Matthew Baigell
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    Maso­rah and Text Crit­i­cism in the Ear­ly Mod­ern Mediter­ranean: Moshe Ibn Zabara and Mena­hem De Lonzano
    Jordan S. Penkower
    Essay

    An Intro­duc­tion to Jan Karski

    by Joshua MuravchikFew indi­vid­u­als risked more to try to save the Jews from the Holo­caust than Jan Kars­ki, and yet what makes his actions most amaz­ing was that the cause of…
    Joshua Muravchik
    April 17, 2015
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