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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
    Cover of Interrupted Journeys: Young Refugees from Hitler's Reich
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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
    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 Soci­ety of Ter­ror: Inside the Dachau and Buchen­wald Con­cen­tra­tion Camps
    Paul M. Neurath
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    Israeli Folk Nar­ra­tives: Set­tle­ment, Immi­gra­tion, Ethnicity
    Haya Bar-Itzhak
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    The Pain Of Knowledge
    Yair Auron; Ruth Ruzga, trans.
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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
    Essay

    Codex vs. Kindle

    Mat­ti Fried­man is a reporter in Jerusalem for the Times of Israel, and author of The Alep­po Codex. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
    Mat­ti Friedman
    July 16, 2012
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