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Rachel Simon

Rachel Simon, a librar­i­an at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, does research on Jews in the mod­ern Mid­dle East and North Africa, with spe­cial ref­er­ence to Libya, Ottoman Empire, women, and education.
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Nazi Pro­pa­gan­da for the Arab World
Jeffrey Herf
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Jew­ish Prop­er­ty Claims Against Arab Countries
Michael R. Fischbach
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Nazi Pales­tine: The Plans for the Exter­mi­na­tion of the Jews in Palestine
Klaus-Michael Mallmann & Martin Cüppers; Krista Smith, trans.
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The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years
Klaus Gensicke; Alexander Fraser Gunn, trans.
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Nego­ti­at­ing Arab-Israeli Peace: Pat­terns, Prob­lems, and Pos­si­bil­i­ties, 2nd Edition
Laura Zittrain Eisenberg and Neil Caplan
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Good Arabs: The Israeli Secu­ri­ty Agen­cies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948 – 1967
Hillel Cohen; Haim Watzman, trans.

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