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Nonfiction Making the Bible Modern: Children’s Bibles and Jewish Education in Twentieth-Century America Penny Schine Gold
Nonfiction Ponary Diary, July 1941-November 1943: A Bystander’s Account of a Mass Murder Kazimierz Sakowicz, Yitzhak Arad, ed.
Nonfiction Opportunities That Pass: A Historical Miscellany Cecil Roth; Israel Finestein, Joseph Roth, eds.
Essay The Dangers of Nice Earlier this week Matti Friedman, a reporter in Jerusalem for the Times of Israel, and author of The Aleppo Codex, wrote about the codex vs. the Kindle and… Matti Friedman July 20, 2012
Essay A Hidden History Earlier this week Matti Friedman, a reporter in Jerusalem for the Times of Israel, and author of The Aleppo Codex, wrote about the codex vs. the Kindle. He… Matti Friedman July 18, 2012
Nonfiction Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany Robert Liberles
Nonfiction The Society of Terror: Inside the Dachau and Buchenwald Concentration Camps Paul M. Neurath