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    Fiction
    Amer­i­can Moses
    Stephen Witt
    Nonfiction
    Lethal Provo­ca­tion: The Con­stan­tine Mur­ders and the Pol­i­tics of French Algeria
    Joshua Cole
    Fiction
    What Makes Us
    Rafi Mit­tle­fehldt
    Nonfiction
    Colo­nial­ism and the Jews
    Ethan B Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Man­del (edi­tors)
    Nonfiction
    Liv­ing in Sil­ver­a­do: Secret Jews in the Sil­ver Min­ing Towns of Colo­nial Mexico
    David M. Gitlitz
    Nonfiction
    Race, Rights, & Recog­ni­tion: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture since 1969
    Dean J. Franco
    Nonfiction
    Israeli Folk Nar­ra­tives: Set­tle­ment, Immi­gra­tion, Ethnicity
    Haya Bar-Itzhak
    Nonfiction
    You Need a School­house: Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Julius Rosen­wald, and the Build­ing of Schools for the Seg­re­gat­ed South
    Stephanie Deutsch
    Nonfiction
    Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holo­caust America
    Eric J. Sundquist
    Children's
    Lib­er­ty on 23rd Street
    Jacque­line B. Glasthal; Alan Rein­gold, illus.
    Nonfiction
    Act­ing Jew­ish: Nego­ti­at­ing Eth­nic­i­ty on the Amer­i­can Stage and Screen
    Hen­ry Bial
    Nonfiction
    The Arab Jews: A Post­colo­nial Read­ing of Nation­al­ism, Reli­gion, and Ethnicity
    Yehou­da Shenhav
    Fiction
    Joshua: A Brook­lyn Tale
    Andrew Kane
    Nonfiction
    Race and Reli­gion Among the Cho­sen Peo­ples of Crown Heights
    Hen­ry Goldschmidt
    Children's
    Always an Olivia: A Remark­able Fam­i­ly History
    Car­o­livia Herron
    Nonfiction
    In the Shad­ow of Race: Jews, Lati­nos, and Immi­grant Pol­i­tics in the Unit­ed States
    Vic­to­ria Hattam
    Nonfiction
    The Shift: Israel-Pales­tine From Bor­der Strug­gle to Eth­nic Conflict
    Men­achem Klein
    Nonfiction
    The Black Jews of Africa: His­to­ry, Reli­gion, Identity
    Edith Brud­er
    Nonfiction
    Klezmer Amer­i­ca: Jew­ish­ness, Eth­nic­i­ty, Modernity
    Jonathan Freed­man
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    Levit­town: Two Fam­i­lies, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civ­il Rights in Amer­i­ca’s Leg­endary Suburb
    David Kush­n­er
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