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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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Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger

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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

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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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Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule

Karel C. Berkhoff

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There Was A Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream

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Eyes of Memory: Photographs from the Archive of Herbert and Leni Sonnenfeld

Leni Sonnenfeld

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Jewish Maxwell Street Stories

Shuli Eshel and Roger Schatz

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A History of the Holocaust

Saul S. Friedman

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DNA & Tradition: The Genertic Link to the Ancient Hebrews

Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman

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Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side

Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bruce Davidson, photographs

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Escaping Auschwitz: A Culture of Forgetting

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Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytical View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict