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State of Fail­ure: Yass­er Arafat, Mah­moud Abbas, and the Unmak­ing of the Pales­tin­ian State
Jonathan Schanz­er
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Jew­ish Way­far­ers in Mod­ern Chi­na: Tragedy and Splendor
Matthias Messmer
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The Searchers
Glenn Frankel
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Amer­i­can Jews and Amer­i­ca’s Game
Lar­ry Ruttman
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The Pow­er of Cit­i­zen­ship: Why John F. Kennedy Mat­ters to a New Generation
Scott Reich
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Augie’s Secrets: The Min­neapo­lis Mob and the King of the Hen­nepin Strip
Neal Karlen
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Last Chance for Justice
T.K. Thorne
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The Red Man’s Bones
Beni­ta Eisler
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Yoni’s Last Bat­tle: The Res­cue at Entebbe, 1976
Iddo Netanyahu
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But Where Is the Lamb?: Imag­in­ing the Sto­ry of Abra­ham and Isaac
James Good­man
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I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary
Mar­i­anne Szegedy-Maszak
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3rd Gen­er­a­tion and Beyond
Dan­na Pycher
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Rebec­ca Miller on Gluck­el of Hameln

This week on the Vis­it­ing Scribe, Rebec­ca Miller will be shar­ing texts that shed light on Jew­ish life in eigh­teenth-cen­tu­ry France, the set­ting of her new nov­el,…
Rebec­ca Miller
May 13, 2013
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Becom­ing Sovi­et Jews: The Bol­she­vik Exper­i­ment in Minsk
Elis­sa Bemporad
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Like Dream­ers: The Sto­ry of the Israeli Para­troop­ers Who Reunit­ed Jerusalem and Divid­ed a Nation
Yos­si Klein Halevi
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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Car­la Kaplan
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