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    Yid­dish Civ­i­liza­tion: The Rise and Fall of a For­got­ten Nation
    Paul Kriwaczek
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    Trou­bling the Waters: Black-Jew­ish Rela­tions in the Amer­i­can Century
    Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
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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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    The Killing Trap: Geno­cide in the 20th Century
    Manus L. Midlarsky
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    Author­i­ty, Pow­er, and Lead­er­ship in the Jew­ish Polity
    Daniel J. Elazar
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    Roo­sevelt and the Holocaust
    Robert L. Beir, Brian Josepher
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    An Uneasy Rela­tion­ship: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Lead­er­ship and Israel, 1948 — 1957
    Zvi Ganin
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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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    The Sephardim: Their Glo­ri­ous Tra­di­tion from the Baby­lon­ian Exile to the Present Day
    Lucien Gubbay and Abraham Levy
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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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