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Children’s Sarah Bernhardt: The Divine and Dazzling Life of the World’s First Super Star Catherine Reef
Nonfiction The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance Catherine Fletcher
Essay Renaissance Revealed: The Oppression of Jews in Italy in the 1500s Catherine Fletcher September 14, 2020
Essay Reading Tanakh with Christians Earlier this week, Julie Baretz wrote about why she decided to make aliyah. Her book, The Bible on Location: Off the Beaten Path in Ancient and Modern Israel, is now… Julie Baretz June 10, 2015
Essay How a Former Catholic Priest Gained a New Understanding of the Holocaust Salvatore Tagliareni is a storyteller, writer, business consultant, art dealer, and former Catholic priest. He is the author of the novels Hitler’s… Salvatore Tagliareni October 6, 2014
Nonfiction The Holocaust, the Church, and the Law of Unintended Consequences: How Christian Anti-Judaism Spawned Nazi Anti-Semitism Anthony Joseph Sciolino