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    The Clan­des­tine His­to­ry of the Kovno Jew­ish Ghet­to Police
    Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
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    Dear Mendl, Dear Rey­zl: Yid­dish Let­ter Man­u­als from Rus­sia and America
    Alice Nakhimovsky and Roberta Newman
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    A Bin­tel Brief: Love and Long­ing in Old New York
    Liana Finck
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    Hanns and Rudolf: The True Sto­ry of the Ger­man Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kom­man­dant of Auschwitz
    Thomas Harding
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    How the Jews Defeat­ed Hitler: Explod­ing the Myth of Jew­ish Pas­siv­i­ty in the Face of Nazism
    Benjamin Ginsberg
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    Lawrence in Ara­bia: War, Deceit, Impe­r­i­al Fol­ly and the Mak­ing of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East
    Scott Anderson
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    An Unusu­al Rela­tion­ship: Evan­gel­i­cal Chris­tians and Jews
    Yaakov Ariel
    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
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    The Sto­ry of the Jews: Find­ing the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
    Simon Schama
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    Between Ruin and Restora­tion: An Envi­ron­men­tal His­to­ry of Israel
    Daniel E. Orenstein, Alon Tal, Char Miller, eds.
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    All the Trees of the For­est: Israel’s Wood­lands from the Bible to the Present
    Alon Tal
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    The Jew­ish Move­ment in the Sovi­et Union
    Yaacov Ro’i, ed.; George P. Schultz, epilogue
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    A Child of Chris­t­ian Blood: Mur­der and Con­spir­a­cy in Tsarist Rus­sia: The Beilis Blood Libel
    Edmund Levin
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    Days of Deci­sion: Hitler and Kristallnacht
    Andrew Langley
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    The Dev­il That Nev­er Dies: The Rise and Threat of Glob­al Antisemitism
    Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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    Hot­house: The Art of Sur­vival and the Sur­vival of Art at America’s Most Cel­e­brat­ed Pub­lish­ing House, Far­rar, Straus & Giroux
    Boris Kachka
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