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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
    Ted Gup
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    The Women Who Recon­struct­ed Amer­i­can Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion, 1910 – 1965
    Carol K. Ingall, ed.
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    Ein­stein Before Israel: Zion­ist Icon or Iconoclast?
    Ze’ev Rosenkranz
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    The Syn­a­gogue in Amer­i­ca: A Short History
    Marc Lee Raphael
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    Pre­cious Objects: A Sto­ry of Dia­monds, Fam­i­ly, and a Way of Life
    Ali­cia Oltuski
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    The Ben­der­ly Boys and Amer­i­can Jew­ish Education
    Jonathan B. Krasner
    Cover of The Making of Modern Israel: 1948-1967
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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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    Levi­rate Mar­riage and the Fam­i­ly in Ancient Judaism
    Dvora E. Weisberg
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    God Inter­rupt­ed: Heresy and the Euro­pean Imag­i­na­tion Between the World Wars
    Benjamin Lazier
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    Eman­ci­pa­tion: How Lib­er­at­ing Europe’s Jews from the Ghet­to Led to Rev­o­lu­tion and Renaissance
    Michael Goldfarb
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    Invent­ing the Jew: Anti­semet­ic Stereo­types in Roman­ian and Oth­er Cen­tral-East Euro­pean Cultures
    Andrei Oisteanu; Mirela Adascalitei, trans.; Moshe Idel, fwd.
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    Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
    Jeffrey Veidlinger
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