The Jewish Century
by Yuri Slezkine | 
Dead Wake
by Erik Larson | 
World of Our Fathers
by Irving Howe | 
One Summer: America, 1927
by Bill Bryson | 
Six Frigates
by Ian W. Toll | 
102 Minutes
by Jim Dwyer | 
The History of Jihad
by Robert Spencer | 
Five Days at Memorial
by Sheri Fink |
The Oregon Trail
by Rinker Buck | 
The History of Surfing
by Matt Warshaw | 
Washington's Immortals
by Patrick K. O'Donnell | 
American Gun
by Chris Kyle | 
No Way Out
by Mitch Weiss | 
Swords and Swordsmen
by Mike Loades |
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
by Gale R. Owen-Crocker | 
Season of the Witch
by David Talbot |
Almost a Miracle
by John Ferling | 
War Bonds
by Cindy Hval |
Chancellorsville
by Stephen W. Sears |
Nelson's Navy
by Brian Lavery |
Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, as its notable diplomats, artists and thinkers make their mark in far-flung cities and found a self-governing Yiddish world. By its late-medieval heyday, this economically successful, intellectually adventurous, and self-aware society stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Kriwaczek traces, too, the slow decline of Yiddish culture in Europe and Russia, and highlights fresh offshoots in the New World.Combining family anecdote, travelogue, original research, and a keen understanding of Yiddish art and literature, Kriwaczek gives us an exceptional portrait of a culture which, though nearly extinguished, has an influential radiance still.