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Nonfiction The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman
Nonfiction Herzl’s Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State Shlomo Avineri; Haim Watzman, trans.
Nonfiction Conscripted Slaves: Hungarian Jewish Forced Laborers on the Eastern Front During the Second World War Robert Rozett
Nonfiction Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer Bettina Stangneth; Ruth Martin, trans.
Nonfiction Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance Elisheva Baumgarten
Nonfiction Jewish Mad Men: Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience Kerri P. Steinberg
Essay Stumbling on Jewish Suppliers to the Confederacy Adam D. Mendelsohn is Director of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture and Associate Professor of Jewish Studies at the College of Charleston. His… Adam D. Mendelsohn December 16, 2014
Essay Where Should We Have Gone? Earlier this week, Adam Rovner wrote about the top five alternative Jewish homelands that he didn’t explore in his new book, In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands… Adam Rovner December 10, 2014
Essay 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
Nonfiction The Rag Race: How Jews Sewed Their Way to Success in America and the British Empire Adam D. Mendelsohn
Nonfiction Mediterranean Enlightenment: Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform Francesca Bregoli
