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History

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Jew­ish Life in Small-Town Amer­i­ca: A History
Lee Shai Weissbach
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Wolf Trapped: The Life and Death of a Young Artist in Hitler’s Europe
Robert Follett as told by Peter Natan
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Pledges of Jew­ish Alle­giance: Con­ver­sion, Law, and Pol­i­cy­mak­ing in Nine­teenth- and Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Ortho­dox Responsa
David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis
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The Arab Jews: A Post­colo­nial Read­ing of Nation­al­ism, Reli­gion, and Ethnicity
Yehouda Shenhav
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Study­ing the Jew: Schol­ar­ly Anti­semitism in Nazi Germany
Alan E. Steinweis
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A Vil­lage Named Dow­gal­ishok: The Mas­sacre at Radon and Eishishok
Avraham Aviel; Atalya Broide, trans.
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When the World Closed its Doors: Strug­gling to Escape Nazi-Occu­pied Europe
Ida Piller-Greenspan; Susan M. Branting
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Nev­er Despair: Six­ty Years in the Ser­vice of the Jew­ish Peo­ple and the Cause of Human Rights
Gerhart M. Riegner; William Sayers, trans.
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The His­to­ry of the Holo­caust in Romania
Jean Ancel; Yaffah Murciano, trans.; Leon Volovici, ed.
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The Ori­gins of Israel, 1882 – 1948: A Doc­u­men­tary History
Eran Kaplan & Derek J. Penslar, eds.
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His­to­ri­ans, Biographers

Dr. Abi­gail Green is the author of Moses Mon­te­fiore: Jew­ish Lib­er­a­tor, Impe­r­i­al Hero. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and…
Abi­gail Green
May 7, 2012
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The Torah Rev­o­lu­tion: Four­teen Truths that Changed the World
Reuven Hammer
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Blaz­ing Sad­dles It Wasn’t

Ear­li­er this week, Ger­ald Kol­pan shared the sto­ry behind Eli Ger­shon­son, a pho­to gallery of some of the his­tor­i­cal fig­ures in his nov­el, and the…
Ger­ald Kolpan
May 4, 2012
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The His­tor­i­cal Fig­ures in Ger­ald Kol­pan’s Mag­ic Words

Vis­it­ing Scribe blog­ger Ger­ald Kol­pan shares some of the his­tor­i­cal fig­ures in his newest nov­el, Mag­ic Words: The Tale of a Jew­ish Boy-Inter­preter, the World’s…
Ger­ald Kolpan
May 1, 2012
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God’s Jury: The Inqui­si­tion and the Mak­ing of the Mod­ern World
Cullen Murphy
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In Our Prime: The Inven­tion of Mid­dle Age
Patricia Cohen
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