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The JPS Guide to Jew­ish Women
Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry and Cheryl Tallan, eds.
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Betray­ing Spin­oza: The Rene­gade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Rebecca Goldstein
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Mod­els and Mean­ings in the His­to­ry of Jew­ish Leadership
Hal M. Lewis
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We Wept With­out Tears: Tes­ti­monies of the Jew­ish Son­derkom­man­do From Auschwitz
Gideon Greif
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Peace is Pos­si­ble: Con­ver­sa­tions with Arab and Israeli Lead­ers from 1988 to the Present
S. Daniel Abraham
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Pol­lu­tion in a Promised Land: An Envi­ron­men­tal His­to­ry of Israel
Alon Tal
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Torah of the Earth: Explor­ing 4,000 Years of Ecol­o­gy in Jew­ish Thought
Arthur Waskow, ed.
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Secre­cy and Deceit: The Reli­gion of the Crypto-Jews
David M. Gitlitz
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Death of a Lan­guage: The His­to­ry of Judeo-Spanish
Tracy K. Harris
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Sephardic Jews in Amer­i­ca: A Dias­poric History
Aviva Ben-Ur
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How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America
Karen Brodkin
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The Jew­ish Nation of the Caribbean: The Span­ish-Por­tuguese Jew­ish set­tle­ments in the Caribbean and the Guianas
Mordechai Arbell
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The Sephardim: Their Glo­ri­ous Tra­di­tion from the Baby­lon­ian Exile to the Present Day
Lucien Gubbay and Abraham Levy
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Eva’s Sto­ry: A Sur­vivor’s Tale by the Step­sis­ter of Anne Frank
Eva Schloss with Evelyn Julia Kent
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Chil­dren’s
The Jew­ish Americans
Marissa Lingen
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An Unspeak­able Crime: The Pros­e­cu­tion and Per­se­cu­tion of Leo Frank
Elaine Alphin
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