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History

Cover of Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses: Confronting Antisemitism in the Shadow of War
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Nazi Ger­many, Cana­di­an Respons­es: Con­fronting Anti­semitism in the Shad­ow of War
L. Ruth Klein, ed.
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Hol­ly­wood’s Cho­sen Peo­ple: The Jew­ish Expe­ri­ence in Amer­i­can Cinema
Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh Samuelson, eds.
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Bal­lots, Babies, and Ban­ners of Peace: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Wom­en’s Activism, 1890 – 1940
Melissa R. Klapper
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City of Rogues and Schnor­rers: Rus­si­a’s Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa
Jarrod Tanny
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Sav­ing Free Speech…from Itself
Thane Rosen­baum
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Judaism: All That Matters
Keith Kahn-Harris
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Holo­caust Lit­er­a­ture: A His­to­ry and Guide
David G. Roskies and Naomi Diamant
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Jews Under Moroc­can Skies: Two Thou­sand Years of Jew­ish Life
Raphael David Elmaleh and George Ricketts
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The Split His­to­ry of World War II
Simon Rose
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Nine Lives of Israel: A Nation’s His­to­ry Through the Lives of its Fore­most Leaders
Jack L. Schwartzwald
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Jew­hoo­ing the Six­ties: Amer­i­can Celebri­ty and Jew­ish Identity
David E. Kaufman
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Joan­na Her­shon on Assim­i­la­tion and Roman­ti­ciz­ing the Past

Ear­li­er this week, Joan­na Her­shon wrote about an insult and a memo­r­i­al ser­vice she attend­ed for a friend’s father. Her new nov­el, A Dual…
Joan­na Hershon
May 24, 2013
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The Jews of Poland: Rec­ol­lec­tions and Recipes by Edouard de Pomiane

Last week, Rebec­ca Miller wrote about Gluck­el of Hameln. She has been shar­ing texts that shed light on the his­to­ry of Jew­ish life in France, the set­ting of her new…
Rebec­ca Miller
May 23, 2013
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Sephardism: Span­ish Jew­ish His­to­ry and the Mod­ern Lit­er­ary Imagination
Yael Halevi-Wise, ed.
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From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Sup­pressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends
Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch; Valerie Zakovitch, trans.
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The Holy or the Bro­ken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buck­ley & the Unlike­ly Ascent of ​“Hal­lelu­jah”
Alan Light
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