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    Cover of Gretel’s Story: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis
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    Gretel’s Sto­ry: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis
    Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan
    Cover of Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism
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    Levi­rate Mar­riage and the Fam­i­ly in Ancient Judaism
    Dvora E. Weisberg
    Cover of God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination Between the World Wars
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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
    Cover of Inventing the Jew: Antisemetic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures
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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.
    Cover of Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire
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    Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
    Jeffrey Veidlinger
    Cover of The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust
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    The Jews of Bia­lystok Dur­ing World War II and the Holocaust
    Sara Bender
    Cover of The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage
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    The Heart Has Rea­sons: Holo­caust Res­cuers and Their Sto­ries of Courage
    Mark Klempner; Christopher R. Browning, fwd.
    Cover of Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands
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    Among the Right­eous: Lost Sto­ries from the Holo­caust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands
    Robert Satloff
    Cover of Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today
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    Being Jew­ish: The Spir­i­tu­al and Cul­tur­al Prac­tice of Judaism Today
    Ari L. Goldman
    Cover of The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
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    The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
    Kati Mar­ton
    Cover of Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, The Story of a Nation
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    Last Days in Baby­lon: The His­to­ry of a Fam­i­ly, The Sto­ry of a Nation
    Marina Benjamin
    Cover of Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History
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    Jew­ish Roots in South­ern Soil: A New History
    Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, eds.
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    Auschwitz Report
    Pri­mo Levi
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    Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy
    Shlomo Ben-Ami
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    A His­to­ry of Jew­ish Cat­alo­nia: The Life and Death of Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ties in Medieval Catalonia
    Sílvia Planas and Manuel Forcano
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