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Nonfiction
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
Nonfiction
The Birth of the Pill
Visual Arts
Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 1939 – 1949
Nonfiction
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Warsaw Uprising
Nonfiction
Knish: In Search of the Jewish Soul Food
Nonfiction
The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis
Nonfiction
The Formation of the Jewish Canon
Nonfiction
The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Nonfiction
Dear Mendl, Dear Reyzl: Yiddish Letter Manuals from Russia and America
Nonfiction
A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York
Nonfiction
Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
Nonfiction
How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism
Nonfiction
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Nonfiction
An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews
Nonfiction
All the Trees of the Forest: Israel’s Woodlands from the Bible to the Present
Nonfiction
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
Nonfiction
Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel
Nonfiction
The Jewish Movement in the Soviet Union
Nonfiction
A Child of Christian Blood: Murder and Conspiracy in Tsarist Russia: The Beilis Blood Libel