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Here We Are All Jews: 175 Russ­ian — Jew­ish Journeys
Jonathan Porath
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Non­fic­tion
Flower of Vlo­ra: Grow­ing up Jew­ish in Com­mu­nist Albania
Anna Kohen
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In Hitler’s Munich: Jews, the Rev­o­lu­tion, and the Rise of Nazism
Michael Brenner; Jeremiah Riemer, trans.
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Wit­ness to His­to­ry-From Vien­na to Shang­hai: A Mem­oir of Escape, Sur­vival and Resilience
Jean Hoff­mann Lewanda
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The Vix­en
Francine Prose
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Escape From Hun­gary: A Jew­ish Family’s Sto­ry of Survival
Nesanel Yoel Safran
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Jew­it­namese

Nhi Aron­heim
May 19, 2021
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Songs in Dark Times: Yid­dish Poet­ry of Strug­gle from Scotts­boro to Palestine
Amelia M. Glaser
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‘Water­shed Moments’: A Con­ver­sa­tion with Max Gross

Bob Gold­farb
December 14, 2020
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Karl Marx: Phi­los­o­phy and Revolution
Shlo­mo Avineri
Essay—From the Journal

Papa Stal­in and the Hap­py Family

On Com­mu­nist Yid­dish children’s books in the Sovi­et Union and Unit­ed States.

Miri­am Udel
April 29, 2019
Essay

On Jews and Communism

Steven J. Zipperstein
April 6, 2018
Essay

Mar­tin Gang

Glenn Frankel
February 10, 2017
Essay

Dore Schary

Glenn Frankel
February 8, 2017
Essay

The Jews of the Blacklist

Glenn Frankel
February 6, 2017
Interview

Inter­view: Joseph Kanon

by Elise Coop­erLeav­ing Berlin by Joseph Kanon is a grip­ping his­tor­i­cal thriller. The book’s plot takes place in Berlin four years after the end of World War II.…
Elise Coop­er
August 11, 2015
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