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Top 5 Promised Lands I Didn’t Explore

Adam Rovner is the author of In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel out this week from NYU Press. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book…

Adam Rovner

December 8, 2014

Cover of Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America

Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America

Ronald H. Bayor

Cover of The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire

Adam D. Mendelsohn

Cover of Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform

Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform

Francesca Bregoli

Cover of Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria

Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Cover of Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

Risking Everything: A Freedom Summer Reader

Michael Edmonds, ed.

Cover of Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History

Benny Goodman & Teddy Wilson: Taking the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History

Lesa Cline-Ransome; James Ransome, illus.

Cover of A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century

A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century

Cover of The Veterans of History: A Young Person's History of the Jews

The Veterans of History: A Young Person’s History of the Jews

Mitchell Silver

Cover of Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival

Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival

Marcel Prins & Peter Henk Steenhuis

Cover of After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921-1965

After They Closed the Gates: Jewish Illegal Immigration to the United States, 1921 – 1965

Cover of The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa: A Community in Belarus, 1625-2000

The Long Life and Swift Death of Jewish Rechitsa: A Community in Belarus, 1625 – 2000

Albert Kaganovitch

Cover of The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History

The Faith of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History

David N. Myers & Alexander Kaye, eds.

Cover of We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History

We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History

Gary Philip Zola

Cover of Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

Cover of The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews

Bernard Wasserstein