Pillars of Sand The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland Shlomo Sand Verso Books 2012,

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The Big (Jewish) Apple City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York Edited by Deborah Dash Moore

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Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon Harper 2012, $27.99, pp. 465 The most perilous pitfall for a tour de force is that

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By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil From Switzerland’s ban on minarets, to France’s ban on headscarves, and the controversy that raged over

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By Alan A. Stone DucClaude Lanzmann is known on this side of the Atlantic as the Frenchman who created the

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The Book Thief By Markus Zusak The Book Thief is a beautiful but haunting story about a young girl living in

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At the end of 1995, I briefly dropped out of college. It was an unpleasant time, to say the least.

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By John Marszalek Jonathan Sarna’s book When General Grant Expelled the Jews is going to make a significant splash amidst a wave

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By Arieh O’Sullivan Jerusalem is in an awful location. There’s no water. It’s far from any main trade route, surrounded

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By Pamela Eisenbaum Daniel Boyarin, professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California Berkeley, may be the most influential

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