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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
Nonfiction Lives of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: Untold Tales of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich Bryan Mark Rigg
Nonfiction The Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus Barbara J. Sivertsen
Nonfiction The Other Within: the Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity Yirmayahu Yovel
Nonfiction Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb David Kushner
Nonfiction Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns That Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews Philip Spiegel; Natan Sharansky, fwd.
Nonfiction The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany Susannah Heschel
Nonfiction Digging Through the Bible: Understanding Biblical People, Places, and Controversies Through Archaeology Richard A. Freund