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Nonfiction From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women between Religion and Culture Saba Soomekh
Essay Why it Matters that Marshall was Never Nominated for the Supreme Court Earlier this week, M. M. Silver wrote about the riches in Louis Marshall’s archive and explored why it took so long for someone to write a full-length biography of… M. M. Silver March 1, 2013
Nonfiction The Rarest Blue: The Remarkable Story of an Ancient Color Lost to History and Rediscovered Baruch Sterman with Judy Taubes Sterman
Essay Ten Percent of American Jewry’s Top 100 List M. M. Silver is a modern Jewish history scholar at Max Stern College of Emek Yezreel in Israel. His newest book, Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish… M. M. Silver February 25, 2013
Nonfiction The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 10: 1973 – 2005 Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz, eds.
Nonfiction Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival Franci Rabinek Epstein (auth.), Helen Epstein (fwd.)
Visual Arts Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II Eric L. Muller, ed.; Bill Manbo, photographer
Nonfiction A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1800 – 1960 Gabriel M. Goldstein and Elizabeth E. Greenberg, eds.
Nonfiction City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York, With a Visual Essay by Diana L. Linden Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed.
Nonfiction Poverty and Welfare among the Portuguese Jews of Early Modern Amsterdam Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
Fiction The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols: Adapted from the Journals of John H. Watson, MD Nicholas Meyer
Nonfiction My Dear Boy: A World War II Story of Escape, Exile, and Revelation Joanie Holzer Schirm
