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Essay

Sometimes History Throws Me A Bone

This week, Roberta Rich, the author of The Midwife of Venice and a new book, The Harem Midwife, blogs for The Postscript on the the amazing (true!) stories that…

Roberta Rich

July 15, 2014

Essay

On Trailing the Life of Helena Rubinstein

Earlier this week, Michèle Fitoussi wrote about her fascination with Helena Rubinstein and her decision to write the biography Helena Rubinstein: The Woman Who…

Michèle Fitoussi

July 15, 2014

Cover of The Harness Maker's Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas

The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas

Cover of GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation

GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation

Deborah Dash Moore

Cover of Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

David von Drehle

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Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations

Cover of Rescued from the Third Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers Saved the Life of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Rescued from the Third Reich: How One of Hitler’s Soldiers Saved the Life of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Bryan Mark Rigg

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In our Hearts we were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe‑A Dwarf Family’s Survival of the Holocaust

Yehuda Koren & Ellat Negev

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The Book of Job: A Biography

Cover of Antisemitism and the American Far Left

Antisemitism and the American Far Left

Stephen H. Norwood

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The Origins and Onset of the Romanian Holocaust

Cover of The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler

The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler

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Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame

Cover of Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes—and of the Extraordinary Role of the SS

Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes — and of the Extraordinary Role of the SS

Cover of The Boxer's Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps

The Boxer’s Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps

Nathan Shapow with Bob Harris

Cover of Tainted Glory in Handel's Messiah: The Unsettling History of the World's Most Beloved Choral Work

Tainted Glory in Handel’s Messiah: The Unsettling History of the World’s Most Beloved Choral Work

Michael Marissen