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    Jane Loeb Rubin
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    Steven Uji­fusa
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    Alli­son Alsup
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    Alek­san­dar Hemon
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    Han­nah Hahn
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    Tim Grady
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    Hil­lel Halkin
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    Glen­da Abramson
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    We Are Com­ing Unafraid: The Jew­ish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War
    Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren , 2010. 200 pp. $39.95 ISBN: 978−7425− 5274 – 6

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