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The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters
Nonfiction
Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight
Nonfiction
America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
Nonfiction
A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969
Nonfiction
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy
Children's
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
Nonfiction
The Woman Who Fought An Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring
Nonfiction
Lawyers Without Rights: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Berlin after 1933
Nonfiction
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Nonfiction
When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation
Nonfiction
On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore
Nonfiction
The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M. B. Curtis
Nonfiction
Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam
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Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer
Nonfiction
Modern Conservative Judaism: Evolving Thought and Practice
Nonfiction
Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Nonfiction
Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War
Nonfiction
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures behind the Holocaust by Bullets
Nonfiction
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Nonfiction
The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice