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    Shock­ing Paris: Sou­tine, Cha­gall and the Out­siders of Montparnasse
    Stan­ley Meisler
    Essay

    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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    Becom­ing Israeli: Nation­al Ideals & Every­day Life in the 1950s
    Anat Helman
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    Assim­i­lat­ed Jews in the War­saw Ghet­to, 1940 – 1943
    Katarzyna Person
    Interview

    Inter­view: Eric Lichtblau

    by Elise Coop­erThe Nazis Next Door by Eric Licht­blau is a com­pelling reminder of how quick­ly man’s inhu­man­i­ty to man has been for­got­ten. Many in the FBI, CIA, the…
    Elise Coop­er
    April 2, 2015
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    The Kaszt­ner Report: The Report of the Budapest Jew­ish Res­cue Com­mit­tee, 1942 – 1945
    Rezső Kasztner; edited by László Karsai and Judit Molnár
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    The Dev­ils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stal­in, 1939 – 1941
    Roger Moorhouse
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    Israel Since the Six-Day War
    Leslie Stein
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    The Jew Who Defeat­ed Hitler: Hen­ry Mor­gen­thau Jr., FDR, and How We Won the War
    Peter Moreira
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    To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDon­ald, 1945 – 1947
    James G. McDonald; Goda, McDonald Stewart, Hochberg, and Breitman, eds.
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    I Live. Send Help: 100 Years of Jew­ish His­to­ry in Images from the JDC Archives.
    Merri Ukraincik; Linda G. Levi, ed.; David Bezmozgis, fwd.
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    Bar Mitz­vah: A History
    Michael Hilton
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