{"title":"History \u0026 Cultural Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our History \u0026amp; Cultural Studies collection. New Arrival.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-great-kosher-meat-war-of-1902-by-scott-d-seligman","title":"The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 by Scott D. Seligman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 American Book Fest Best Book Awards Finalist in the U.S. History category\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2020 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in American Jewish Studies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the wee hours of May 15, 1902, three thousand Jewish women quietly took up positions on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. 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Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex—leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? 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