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Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Film and Fame
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The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler
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Countrymen: The Untold Story of How Denmark’s Jews Escaped the Nazis, of the Courage of Their Fellow Danes — and of the Extraordinary Role of the SS
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The Boxer’s Story: Fighting for My Life in the Nazi Camps
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Rise and Decline of Civilizations: Lessons for the Jewish People
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Tainted Glory in Handel’s Messiah: The Unsettling History of the World’s Most Beloved Choral Work
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Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
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The U.N. Security Council in the Age of Human Rights
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The Pope’s Last Crusade: How an American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI’s Campaign to Stop Hitler
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The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
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Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
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How the Bible Became Holy
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The Birth of the Pill
Visual Arts
Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939 – 1949
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Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Warsaw Uprising
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Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food
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The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
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The Formation of the Jewish Canon
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The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
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Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America