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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.
    Cover of Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany
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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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    The His­to­ry of the Holo­caust in Romania
    Jean Ancel; Yaffah Murciano, trans.; Leon Volovici, ed.
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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 Ori­gins of Israel, 1882 – 1948: A Doc­u­men­tary History
    Eran Kaplan & Derek J. Penslar, eds.
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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 Torah Rev­o­lu­tion: Four­teen Truths that Changed the World
    Reuven Hammer
    Essay

    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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    My Moth­er’s Spice Cup­board: A Jour­ney from Bagh­dad to Bom­bay to Bondi
    Elana Ben­jamin
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    Unbro­ken Spir­it: A Hero­ic Sto­ry of Faith, Courage and Survival
    Yosef Mendelevich
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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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    Jews of the Wild West a Mul­ti­cul­tur­al True Story
    Kay Miller
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    Press­ing Israel: Media Bias Exposed from A‑Z
    Lee Bender
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