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History

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Blood Libel in Late Impe­r­i­al Rus­sia: The Rit­u­al Mur­der Tri­al of Mendel Beilis
Robert Weinberg
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The Found­ing Fathers of Zionism
Benzion Netanyahu
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Against the Grain: Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­als in Hard Times
Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
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Snow in August
Pete Hamill
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Jew­ish Iden­ti­ties in Post­com­mu­nist Rus­sia and Ukraine: An Uncer­tain Ethnicity
Zvi Gitelman
Essay

Jews and Slav­ery: Isaac Car­do­zo and Lydia Weston

Ear­li­er this week, Sabra Wald­fo­gel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most emi­nent Jews in Geor­gia in the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry, and Clara Solomon, a Jew­ish girl…
Sabra Wald­fo­gel
August 1, 2014
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The Pianist: The Extra­or­di­nary True Sto­ry of One Man’s Sur­vival in War­saw, 1939 – 1945
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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The Bride and the Dowry: Israel, Jor­dan and the Pales­tini­ans in the After­math of the June 1967 War
Avi Raz
Essay

Jews and Slav­ery: Clara Solomon and Lucy Lewis

Ear­li­er this week, Sabra Wald­fo­gel wrote about Raphael Moses, one of the most emi­nent Jews in Geor­gia in the nine­teenth cen­tu­ry. She has recent­ly pub­lished Slave and…
Sabra Wald­fo­gel
July 30, 2014
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Mila 18
Leon Uris
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Jew­ish His­to­ry and Jew­ish Memory

Ear­li­er this week, Stephanie Feld­man wrote about her favorite Wan­der­ing Jews. Her debut nov­el, The Angel of Loss­es, will be pub­lished by Ecco on July 29th. She has been…
Stephanie Feld­man
July 17, 2014
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Shtetl: A Ver­nac­u­lar Intel­lec­tu­al History
Jeffrey Shandler
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The Gold­en Age Shtetl: A New His­to­ry of Jew­ish Life in East Europe
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
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In the Shad­ow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jew­ish Life in Sovi­et Ukraine
Jeffrey Veidlinger
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A Fatal Bal­anc­ing Act: The Dilem­ma of the Reich Asso­ci­a­tion of Jews in Ger­many, 1939 – 1945
Beate Meyer
Essay

My Favorite Wan­der­ing Jews

Stephanie Feld­man is a grad­u­ate of Barnard Col­lege. Her debut nov­el, The Angel of Loss­es, will be pub­lished by Ecco on July 29th. She will be blog­ging here all week…
Stephanie Feld­man
July 15, 2014
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