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    Ashkenazi Jewry

    Cover of The Nice Little Blonde Girl: A Lily Kovner Jewish Miss Marple Novel
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    The Nice Lit­tle Blonde Girl: A Lily Kovn­er Jew­ish Miss Marple Novel
    Lin­da Frank
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    Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
    Bracha Yaniv
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    The Paris Photo
    Jane Gabin
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    Jew­ish Food: The World at Table
    Matthew Good­man
    Cover of The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
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    The Rest of Us: The Rise of Amer­i­ca’s East­ern Euro­pean Jews
    Stephen Birmingham
    Cover of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
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    The YIVO Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jews in East­ern Europe
    Gershon David Hundert, ed.
    Cover of Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe
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    Cul­ture Front: Rep­re­sent­ing Jews in East­ern Europe
    Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran, eds.
    Cover of Anti-Jewish Violence: Rethinking the Pogrom in East European History
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    Anti-Jew­ish Vio­lence: Rethink­ing the Pogrom in East Euro­pean History
    Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir and Israel Bartal, eds.
    Cover of Kiev: Jewish Metropolis. A History, 1859-1914
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    Kiev: Jew­ish Metrop­o­lis. A His­to­ry, 1859 – 1914
    Natan M. Meir
    Cover of Folktales of the Jews, Volume 2: Tales from Eastern Europe
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    Folk­tales of the Jews, Vol­ume 2: Tales from East­ern Europe
    Dan Ben-Amos, ed.; Dov Noy, consulting ed.; Ellen Frankel, series ed.
    Cover of The Jews of Eastern Europe, 1772-1881
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    The Jews of East­ern Europe, 1772 – 1881
    Israel Bartal; Chaya Naor, trans.
    Cover of My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants
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    My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
    Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
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    Insid­ers and Out­siders: Dilem­mas of East Euro­pean Jewry
    Richard I. Cohen, Jonathan Frankel and Stefani Hoffman, eds.
    Cover of Families, Rabbis, and Education: Traditional Jewish Society in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe
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    Fam­i­lies, Rab­bis, and Edu­ca­tion: Tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish Soci­ety in Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry East­ern Europe
    Shaul Stampfer
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    Recon­struct­ing Ashke­naz: The Human Face of Fran­co-Ger­man Jew­ry, 1000 – 1250
    David Malkiel
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