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Essay The Ultimate Sacrifice: James Goodman on Abraham and the Binding of Isaac James Goodman is a professor at Rutgers University, where he teaches history and creative writing. His most recent book, But Where Is the Lamb?, is now… James Goodman September 9, 2013
Essay The French During the Holocaust and the Complications of History Earlier this week, Lauren Grodstein wrote about her strange relationship with her son’s all-American looks. Her most recent novel, The Explanation for Everything,… Lauren Grodstein August 29, 2013
Nonfiction A Vigilant Society: Jewish Thought and the State in Medieval Spain Javier Roiz; Selma L. Margaretten, trans.
Nonfiction Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939 – 1941 Lynne Olson
Nonfiction The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain Paul Preston
Nonfiction Next Year in Marienbad: The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture Mirjam Zadoff; William Templer, trans.
Nonfiction A Mahzor From Worms: Art and Religion in a Medieval Jewish Community Katrin Kogman-Appel
Nonfiction A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914 – 1948 James Barr
Nonfiction Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses: Confronting Antisemitism in the Shadow of War L. Ruth Klein, ed.
Nonfiction Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance, Hava Tirosh Samuelson, eds.
Nonfiction Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890 – 1940 Melissa R. Klapper
