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Excerpt Excerpt — Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe Ken Krimstein August 19, 2024
Nonfiction Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe Iris Idelson-Shein
Nonfiction (In)Sights: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo
Nonfiction How the West Became Antisemitic: Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800‑1500 Ivan G. Marcus
Nonfiction Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins Jacob L. Wright
Nonfiction Just City: Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right Jennifer Baum
Nonfiction Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America Hasia R. Diner
Nonfiction The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld Dan Slater
Children’s Perfect Match: The Story of Althea Gibson and Angela Buxton Lori Dubbin; Amanda Quartey, illus.
Nonfiction Shylock’s Venice: The Remarkable History of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto Harry Freedman
Nonfiction Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth Asaf Elia-Shalev
