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Nonfiction Bread to Eat and Clothes to Wear: Letters from Jewish Migrants in the Early Twentieth Century Gur Alroey
Essay The Joint Earlier this week, Leslie Maitland wrote about choosing an epigraph, the artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine project, and reconnecting branches of her family… Leslie Maitland June 1, 2012
Essay What’s in a Name? Jonathan B. Krasner is the author of the National Jewish Book Award winning title The Benderly Boys and American Jewish Education. Krasner was also a finalist… Jonathan B. Krasner May 21, 2012
Nonfiction The Nazi Séance: The Strange Story of The Jewish Psychic in Hitler’s Circle Arthur J. Magida
Nonfiction Wolf Trapped: The Life and Death of a Young Artist in Hitler’s Europe Robert Follett as told by Peter Natan
Nonfiction Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
Nonfiction The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity Yehouda Shenhav
