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    Exo­dus and Amer­i­can His­to­ry: ​“The Promise of Liberty”

    Stu­art Halpern, Jacob Kupi­et­zky
    April 15, 2024
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    Herod the Great: Jew­ish King in a Roman World
    Mar­tin Goodman
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    Write like a Man: Jew­ish Mas­culin­i­ty and the New York Intellectuals
    Ron­nie A. Grinberg
    Cover of Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
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    Time’s Echo: The Sec­ond World War, the Holo­caust, and the Music of Remembrance
    Jere­my Eichler
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    The Jews: 5,000 Years and Counting
    Rob Kut­ner
    Cover of Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany
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    New­shawks in Berlin: The Asso­ci­at­ed Press and Nazi Germany
    Lar­ry Heinzerling
    Randy Her­schaft
    Ann Coop­er
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    The Light of Learn­ing: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the Holocaust
    Glenn Dyn­ner
    Essay

    Nazi-Loot­ed Art: Writ­ing ​“The Lost Van Gogh”

    Jonathan Sant­lofer
    February 19, 2024
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    The Forg­ers: The For­got­ten Sto­ry of the Holo­caust’s Most Auda­cious Res­cue Operation
    Roger Moore­house
    Interview

    How to Tell an Essen­tial Sto­ry: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Steve Sheinkin

    Emi­ly Schneider
    February 8, 2024
    Essay

    Four Sephardic Jew­ish Girls Caught in the Web of History

    Ruth Behar
    February 5, 2024
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    Pales­tine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Mid­dle East Conflict
    Oren Kessler
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    The Last Ships from Ham­burg: Busi­ness, Rival­ry, and the Race to Save Rus­si­a’s Jews on the Eve of World War I
    Steven Uji­fusa
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    For­got­ten Girls of the Holo­caust: Annette Zel­man’s Story

    Heather Dune Macadam, Simon Wor­rall
    January 8, 2024
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    Hour of Need: The Dar­ing Escape of the Dan­ish Jews dur­ing World War II: A Graph­ic Novel
    Ralph Shayne; Tatiana Goldberg, illus.
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    Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald’s Assassin
    Dan­ny Fingeroth
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