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Cover of The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread

The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread

Cover of Hebrew Writing of the First World War

Hebrew Writing of the First World War

Glenda Abramson

Cover of The Oral Law of Sinai: An Illustrated History of the Mishnah

The Oral Law of Sinai: An Illustrated History of the Mishnah

Rabbi Berel Wein

Cover of Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America

Make ‘em Laugh: The Funny Business of America

Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor

Cover of Voices From Shanghai: Jewish Exiles in Wartime China

Voices From Shanghai: Jewish Exiles in Wartime China

Irene Eber, ed., trans., and intro.

Cover of Creation of the Modern Middle East: Israel

Creation of the Modern Middle East: Israel

Louise Chipley Slavicek; Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., ed.

Cover of Israel and Palestine

Israel and Palestine

Essay

Today I Am a Woman

Shulamit Reinharz and Barbara Vinick are the editors of the recently published Today I Am a Woman: Stories of Bat Mitzvah around the World. They will be…

Barbara Vinick, Shulamit Reinharz

January 9, 2012

Cover of Lives of Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich

Lives of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich

Bryan Mark Rigg

Cover of The Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus

The Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus

Barbara J. Sivertsen

Cover of Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns That Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews

Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns That Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews

Philip Spiegel; Natan Sharansky, fwd.

Cover of Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past

Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past

Cover of Tropical Zion: General Trujillo FDR, and the Jews of Sosua

Tropical Zion: General Trujillo FDR, and the Jews of Sosua

Cover of Digging Through the Bible: Understanding Biblical People, Places, and Controversies Through Archaeology

Digging Through the Bible: Understanding Biblical People, Places, and Controversies Through Archaeology

Richard A. Freund

Cover of The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

Susannah Heschel

Cover of The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish 1903-1917

The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish 1903 – 1917

Barry Trachtenberg