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Nonfiction The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Nonfiction Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
Nonfiction Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz Thomas Harding
Nonfiction How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism Benjamin Ginsberg
Interview Interview: David Laskin by Elise CooperDavid Laskin’s book, The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, is a gripping tale that traces the roots of the author’s… Elise Cooper February 25, 2014
Nonfiction Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East Scott Anderson
Nonfiction Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel Daniel E. Orenstein, Alon Tal, Char Miller, eds.
Nonfiction All the Trees of the Forest: Israel’s Woodlands from the Bible to the Present Alon Tal
Nonfiction The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union Yaacov Ro’i, ed.; George P. Schultz, epilogue
Nonfiction A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel Edmund Levin
Nonfiction The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Nonfiction Hothouse: The Art of Survival and the Survival of Art at America’s Most Celebrated Publishing House, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Boris Kachka
