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    Cover of Rescue & Flight: American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis
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    Res­cue & Flight: Amer­i­can Relief Work­ers Who Defied the Nazis
    Susan Elizabeth Subak; William F. Schulz, aftwd.
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    Jew­ish Respons­es to Per­se­cu­tion, 1933 – 1946: Vol­ume I
    Jurgen Matthaus and Mark Roseman
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    The Holo­caust: A Con­cise History
    Doris L. Bergen
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    The Lib­er­a­tors: Amer­i­ca’s Wit­nessers to the Holocaust
    Michael Hirsh
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    The Prime Min­is­ters: An Inti­mate Nar­ra­tive of Israeli Leadership
    Yehuda Avner; Martin Gilbert, intro.
    Cover of The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa
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    The Unspo­ken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Rela­tion­ship with Apartheid South Africa
    Sasha Polakow-Suransky
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    The Image of the Jews in Greek Lit­er­a­ture: The Hel­lenis­tic Period
    Bezalel Bar-Kochva
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    The War­saw Ghet­to: A Guide to the Per­ished City
    Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak; Emma Harris, trans.
    Cover of Restitution: A Family's Fight for Their Heritage Lost in the Holocaust
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    Resti­tu­tion: A Fam­i­ly’s Fight for Their Her­itage Lost in the Holocaust
    Kathy Kac­er
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    The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bar­gain With the Bomb
    Avner Cohen
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    Emis­sary of the Doomed: Bar­gain­ing For Lives in the Holocaust
    Ronald Florence
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    Ear­ly Mod­ern Jew­ry: A New Cul­tur­al History
    David B. Ruderman
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    Empire Jews: Jew­ish Nation­al­ism and Accul­tur­a­tion in 19th and Ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry Russia
    Brian Horowitz
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    Jerusalem’s Trai­tor: Jose­phus, Masa­da, and the Fall of Judea
    Desmond Seward
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    When They Come For Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Strug­gle to Save Sovi­et Jewry
    Gal Beck­er­man
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    Jews & Mon­ey: The Sto­ry of a Sterotype
    Abraham H. Foxman
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