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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
    Cover of Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis
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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
    Cover of On Chariots with Horses of Fire and Iron: The Excursionists and the Narrow Gauge Railroad From Jaffa to Jerusalem
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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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    Anti­semitism: A History
    Albert S. Lindemann and Richard S. Levy, eds.
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    Gretel’s Sto­ry: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis
    Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan
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    The Long Night: William L. Shir­er and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
    Steve Wick
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    The Lem­berg Mosa­ic: The Mem­oirs of Two Who Sur­vived the Destruc­tion of Jew­ish Galicia
    Jakob Weiss
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    How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III
    Ron Rosenbaum
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    A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kind­ness– and a Trove of Let­ters– Revealed the Hid­den His­to­ry of the Great Depression
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