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Cover of Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany

Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany

Rebecca Brenner Graham

Cover of Rivonia's Children: Nelson Mandela's White Comrades and Their Legacy

Rivonia’s Children: Nelson Mandela’s White Comrades and Their Legacy

Cover of When Bible Meets History: Ancient Voices Tell Their Version

When Bible Meets History: Ancient Voices Tell Their Version

Stephen Lee Crane

Cover of The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America

The Great White Hoax: Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America

Cover of Displacement- Zweig, Roth and Benjamin: Three eminent writers hunted to death by fascism

Displacement- Zweig, Roth and Benjamin: Three eminent writers hunted to death by fascism

Cover of Shalama: My 96 Seasons in China

Shalama: My 96 Seasons in China

Jean Hoffmann Lewanda

Cover of 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life

99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American Way of Life

Cover of When Einstein Met Kafka: Jewish Contributions to the Modern World

When Einstein Met Kafka: Jewish Contributions to the Modern World

Diego Moldes; Steven Capsuto, trans

Cover of New York City Love Triangle, 1931: A Tale of Three Families

New York City Love Triangle, 1931: A Tale of Three Families

Cover of No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust

Cover of Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

Two Wheels to Freedom: The Story of a Young Jew, Wartime Resistance, and a Daring Escape

Arthur J. Magida

Cover of Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish

Hannah Pollin-Galay

Cover of Bad Jew: A Family's Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu's Israel

Bad Jew: A Family’s Quest from the Minsk Ghetto to Netanyahu’s Israel

Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.

Essay

Making the Revolution Jewish

Adam Jortner

August 19, 2024

Cover of A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom

Excerpt

Excerpt — Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

Ken Krimstein

August 19, 2024