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The Mak­ing of Mod­ern Israel: 1948 – 1967
Leslie Stein
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Chil­dren Dur­ing the Holo­caust: Doc­u­ment­ing Life and Destruc­tion: Holo­caust Sources in Con­text Series
Patricia Heberer
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Sin­ners on Tri­al: Jews and Sac­ri­lege after the Reformation
Magda Teter
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Com­mem­o­rat­ing Hell: The Pub­lic Mem­o­ry of Mittelbau-Dora
Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler
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Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
Shimon Peres with David Landau
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Pas­sion­ate Pio­neers: The Sto­ry of Yid­dish Sec­u­lar Edu­ca­tion in North Amer­i­ca, 1910 – 1960
Fradle Pomerantz Freidenreich; Jonathan Sarna, fwd.
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Eisen­how­er 1956: The President’s Year of Cri­sis, Suez and the Brink of War
David A. Nichols
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Find­ing Home and Home­land: Jew­ish Youth and Zion­ism in the After­math of the Holocaust
Avi­noam J. Patt
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The Mas­sacre of the Jews of Lithuania
Karen Sutton
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Beyond the Façade: A Syn­a­gogue, A Restora­tion, A Legacy
Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
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Jews and Mag­ic in Medici Flo­rence: The Secret World of Benedet­to Blanis
Edward Goldberg
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In the Gar­den of Beasts: Love, Ter­ror, and an Amer­i­can Fam­i­ly in Hitler’s Berlin
Erik Larson
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Chas­ing Shad­ows: A Spe­cial Agen­t’s Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assas­sin to Justice
Fred Burton and John Bruning
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Mur­der With­out Hatred: Esto­ni­ans and the Holocaust
Anton Weiss-Wendt
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On Char­i­ots with Hors­es of Fire and Iron: The Excur­sion­ists and the Nar­row Gauge Rail­road From Jaf­fa to Jerusalem
Anthony S. Travis
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Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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