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    Jonathan B. Krasner
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    The Mak­ing of Mod­ern Israel: 1948 – 1967
    Leslie Stein
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    Patricia Heberer
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    Magda Teter
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    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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    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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    Karen Sutton
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    Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
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    Erik Larson
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    Fred Burton and John Bruning
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    Anton Weiss-Wendt
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