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    Shy­lock­’s Venice: The Remark­able His­to­ry of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
    Har­ry Freedman
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    Say­ing No to Hate: Over­com­ing Anti­semitism in America
    Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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    Jew­ish Space Lasers: The Roth­schilds and 200 Years of Con­spir­a­cy Theories
    Mike Roth­schild
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    The Tal­ent­ed Mrs. Man­del­baum: The Rise and Fall of an Amer­i­can Orga­nized-Crime Boss
    Mar­galit Fox
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    Israel’s Black Pan­thers: The Rad­i­cals Who Punc­tured a Nation’s Found­ing Myth
    Asaf Elia-Shalev
    Essay

    “I Heard These Sto­ries Dif­fer­ent­ly”: Inter­view­ing Mira

    Rachelle Unre­ich
    July 1, 2024
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    The Ein­stein of Sex: Dr. Mag­nus Hirschfeld, the Vision­ary of Weimar Berlin
    Daniel Brook
    Essay

    Declas­si­fied: The Women Using Math to Fight Back Dur­ing WWII

    Cam­bria Gordon
    June 24, 2024
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    Israel/​Palestine in World Reli­gions: Whose Promised Land?
    S. Ilan Troen
    Essay

    Jew­ish War Brides: Heroes in History

    Robin Judd
    May 27, 2024
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    Lib­er­ty Street: A Savan­nah Fam­i­ly, Its Gold­en Boy, and the Civ­il War
    Jason K. Friedman
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    In the Foot­steps of the Jews of Greece: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
    Anas­ta­sios Karababas
    Essay

    Con­text and Chal­lenge: Whose Promised Land?

    S. Ilan Troen
    May 13, 2024
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    Simona Zaret­sky
    May 13, 2024
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    Excerpt: Unex­pect­ed Pas­sages, 1940 – 1941

    Rachel Scheer
    May 6, 2024
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    From Man­del­stam to Moth­er Doll

    Katya Apekina
    April 30, 2024
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