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What Are Jews For? History, Peoplehood, and Purpose
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Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
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Recipes From Auschwitz: The Survival Stories of Two Hungarian Jews
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Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag
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Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries
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Balm in Gilead: A Story from the War
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The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility
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Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany
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Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel
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Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
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Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
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The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz
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A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty
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The Note Through the Wire: The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine
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How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1: The Man Who Got Away
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The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany