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    We Look Like the Ene­my: The Hid­den Sto­ry of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands
    Rachel Shabi
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    Abra­ham: A Jour­ney to the Heart of Three Faiths
    Bruce Feiler
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    The Chang­ing Face of Anti-Semi­tism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
    Walter Laqueur
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    Beyond Anne Frank: Hid­den Chil­dren and Post­war Fam­i­lies in Holland
    Diane L. Wolf
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    Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Mak­ing of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East
    Michael B. Oren
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    Chil­dren of the Holocaust
    Stephanie Fitzgerald
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    The Anato­my of Israel’s Survival
    Hirsh Goodman
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    We All Wore Stars: Mem­o­ries of Anne Frank from Her Classmates
    Theo Coster
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    This Burn­ing Land: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Trans­formed Israeli-Pales­tin­ian Conflict
    Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin
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    Broth­ers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena
    Jerold S. Auerbach
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    One Hun­dred Years of Kib­butz Life
    Michal Palgi and Shulamit Reinharz, eds..
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    When Courage Pre­vailed: The Res­cue and Sur­vival of Jews in the Inde­pen­dent State of Croa­t­ia 1941 – 1945
    Esther Gitman
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    The Per­fect Nazi: Uncov­er­ing My Grandfather’s Secret Past
    Martin Davidson
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    Palaces of Time: Jew­ish Cal­en­dar and Cul­ture in Ear­ly Mod­ern Europe
    Elisheva Carlebach
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    The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Sto­ry of How Mus­lims Saved Jews Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix
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