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    One Hun­dred Years of Kib­butz Life
    Michal Palgi and Shulamit Reinharz, eds..
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    When Courage Pre­vailed: The Res­cue and Sur­vival of Jews in the Inde­pen­dent State of Croa­t­ia 1941 – 1945
    Esther Gitman
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    The Per­fect Nazi: Uncov­er­ing My Grandfather’s Secret Past
    Martin Davidson
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    Palaces of Time: Jew­ish Cal­en­dar and Cul­ture in Ear­ly Mod­ern Europe
    Elisheva Carlebach
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    The Grand Mosque of Paris: A Sto­ry of How Mus­lims Saved Jews Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix
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    King David
    Louise Chipley Slavicek
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    On Char­i­ots with Hors­es of Fire and Iron: The Excur­sion­ists and the Nar­row Gauge Rail­road From Jaf­fa to Jerusalem
    Anthony S. Travis
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    Jerusalem: The Biography
    Simon Sebag Montefiore
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    Anti­semitism: A History
    Albert S. Lindemann and Richard S. Levy, eds.
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    Gretel’s Sto­ry: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis
    Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan
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    The Long Night: William L. Shir­er and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
    Steve Wick
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    The Lem­berg Mosa­ic: The Mem­oirs of Two Who Sur­vived the Destruc­tion of Jew­ish Galicia
    Jakob Weiss
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    How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III
    Ron Rosenbaum
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    The Women Who Recon­struct­ed Amer­i­can Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion, 1910 – 1965
    Carol K. Ingall, ed.
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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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    Ze’ev Rosenkranz
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