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Cover of Smoke in the Sand: The Jews of Lvov in the War Years, 1939-1944
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Smoke in the Sand: The Jews of Lvov in the War Years, 1939 – 1944
Eliyahu Yones
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The Jew­ish Century
Yuri Slezkine
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Pro­files in Ter­ror: The Guide to Mid­dle East Ter­ror­ist Organizations
Aaron Mannes
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Inter­rupt­ed Jour­neys: Young Refugees from Hitler’s Reich
Alan Gill
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Sol­diers and Slaves: Amer­i­can POWS Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble
Roger Cohen
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Ponary Diary, July 1941-Novem­ber 1943: A Bystander’s Account of a Mass Murder
Kazimierz Sakowicz, Yitzhak Arad, ed.
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Oppor­tu­ni­ties That Pass: A His­tor­i­cal Miscellany
Cecil Roth; Israel Finestein, Joseph Roth, eds.
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Yid­dish and the Cre­ation of Sovi­et Jew­ish Cul­ture 1918 – 1930
David Shneer
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The Holo­caust: A Reader
Simone Gigliotti and Berel Lang, 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
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Jews Wel­come Cof­fee: Tra­di­tion and Inno­va­tion in Ear­ly Mod­ern Germany
Robert Liberles
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The Birth of Sur­ro­ga­cy in Israel
D. Kelly Weisberg
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The Acci­den­tal Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Set­tle­ments, 1967 – 1977
Gershom Gorenberg
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Auschwitz: A History
Sybille Steinbacher, trans.
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After Day­break: The Lib­er­a­tion of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
Ben Shephard
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