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    Bukha­ran Jews and the Dynam­ics of Glob­al Judaism
    Alanna E. Cooper
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    Russ­ian Jews Between the Reds and the Whites, 1917 – 1920
    Oleg Budnitskii; Timothy J. Portice, trans.
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    Ire­na’s Jars of Secrets
    Marcia Vaughan; Ron Mazellan, illus.
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    Jean Laf­fite: The Pirate Who Saved America
    Susan Goldman Rubin; Jeff Himmelman, illus.
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    The Nazi Con­cen­tra­tion Camps, 1933 – 1939: A Doc­u­men­tary History
    Christian Goeschel & Nikolaus Wachsmann, eds.; Ewald Osers, trans.
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    Archae­ol­o­gy and the Bib­li­cal Record
    Bernard Alpert and Fran Alpert
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    Writ­ing Biog­ra­phy: The Historian’s Chal­lenge, Part 2

    On Tues­day, Ger­ald Sorin wrote about ambiva­lence toward the genre of biog­ra­phy. Today, he con­sid­ers the ques­tion: Can the biog­ra­ph­er or their read­ers real­ly know the…
    Ger­ald Sorin
    November 8, 2012
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    Jews and Words
    Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
    Essay

    Writ­ing Biog­ra­phy: The Historian’s Chal­lenge, Part 1

    Ger­ald Sorin​’s most recent book, Howard Fast: Life and Lit­er­a­ture in the Left Lane, is now avail­able. Ger­ald won the 2003 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award in His­to­ry for…
    Ger­ald Sorin
    November 6, 2012
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    Jew­ish Images in the Comics: A Visu­al History
    Fredrik Stromberg
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    Race, Rights, & Recog­ni­tion: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture since 1969
    Dean J. Franco
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    On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Sec­ond World War
    Bernard Wasserstein
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    Between Chris­t­ian and Jew: Con­ver­sion and Inqui­si­tion in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391
    Paola Tartakoff
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    A Jew­ish Renais­sance in Fif­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Spain
    Mark D. Meyerson
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    The Dic­ta­tors: Hitler’s Ger­many, Stal­in’s Russia
    Richard Overy
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    Har­vest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule
    Karel C. Berkhoff
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