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Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
Jeffrey Veidlinger
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The Jews of Bia­lystok Dur­ing World War II and the Holocaust
Sara Bender
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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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The Heart Has Rea­sons: Holo­caust Res­cuers and Their Sto­ries of Courage
Mark Klempner; Christopher R. Browning, fwd.
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Among the Right­eous: Lost Sto­ries from the Holo­caust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands
Robert Satloff
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Being Jew­ish: The Spir­i­tu­al and Cul­tur­al Prac­tice of Judaism Today
Ari L. Goldman
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The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
Kati Mar­ton
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Last Days in Baby­lon: The His­to­ry of a Fam­i­ly, The Sto­ry of a Nation
Marina Benjamin
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Jew­ish Roots in South­ern Soil: A New History
Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, eds.
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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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Plumes: Ostrich Feath­ers, Jews, and a Lost World of Glob­al Commerce
Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
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Trou­bling the Waters: Black-Jew­ish Rela­tions in the Amer­i­can Century
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
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Refuge Denied
Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller
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Becom­ing Eichmann
David Cesarani
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Sephardic and Mizrahi Jew­ry: From the Gold­en Age of Spain to Mod­ern Times
Zion Zohar, ed.
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