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    The Pope and Mus­soli­ni: The Secret His­to­ry of Pius XI and the Rise of Fas­cism in Europe
    David I. Kertzer
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    Defend­ing the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Cru­sades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
    Sha­ran Newman
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    How the Bible Became Holy
    Michael L Satlow
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    The Pope’s Last Cru­sade: How an Amer­i­can Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Cam­paign to Stop Hitler
    Peter Eis­ner
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    The Birth of the Pill
    Jonathan Eig
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    Mid­night at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Mod­ern Istanbul
    Charles King
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    The U.N. Secu­ri­ty Coun­cil in the Age of Human Rights
    Jared Genser
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    Rise and Decline of Civ­i­liza­tions: Lessons for the Jew­ish People
    Shalom Salomon Wald
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    Visu­al Arts
    Cin­e­ma Judaica: The War Years, 1939 – 1949
    Ken Sutak
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    War­saw 1944: Hitler, Himm­ler and the War­saw Uprising
    Alexandra Richie
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    Knish: In Search of the Jew­ish Soul Food
    Lau­ra Silver
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    The For­ma­tion of the Jew­ish Canon
    Timothy H. Lim
    Cover of The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
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    The Fan­tas­tic Lab­o­ra­to­ry of Dr. Wei­gl: How Two Brave Sci­en­tists Bat­tled Typhus and Sab­o­taged the Nazis
    Arthur Allen
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    Chang­ing Times, Chang­ing Let­ters, and Mov­ing Forward

    Ear­li­er this week, Liana Finck wrote about how she dis­cov­ered A Bin­tel Brief and shared the his­to­ry behind the col­umn. Her graph­ic nov­el, A Bin­tel…
    Liana Finck
    April 18, 2014
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    Find­ing a Sto­ry to Tell

    Ear­li­er this week, Liana Finck shared the his­to­ry behind the For­ward​’s Bin­tel Brief col­umn. Her graph­ic nov­el, A Bin­tel Brief, was pub­lished by Ecco. She will be…
    Liana Finck
    April 17, 2014
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    The Begin­nings of A Bin­tel Brief

    Liana Finck is an emerg­ing graph­ic nov­el­ist. She was a Ful­bright Fel­low in Brus­sels in 2009-10 and is a Six Points Fel­low in New York. She pub­lish­es in The…
    Liana Finck
    April 14, 2014
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