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Dri­ven to Dark­ness: Jew­ish Emi­gre Direc­tors and the Rise of Film Noir
Vincent Brook
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A Sense of Pur­pose: Recollection
Suzy Eban
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The Dev­il’s Work­shop: A Mem­oir of the Nazi Coun­ter­feit­ing Operation
Adolf Burger
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My Father’s Bonus March
Adam Langer
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The Aris­to­crat: The Life and Lega­cy of Hil­lel Menashe Sutton
Abraham Sutton
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Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, with David Ritz
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Why The Drey­fus Affair Matters
Louis Begley
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The War of Atone­ment: The Inside Sto­ry of the Yom Kip­pur War
Chaim Herzog
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Byzan­tine Jew­ry in the Mediter­ranean Economy
Joshua Holo
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Fromms: How Julius From­m’s Con­dom Empire Fell to the Nazis
Götz Aly and Michael Sontheimer; Shelley Frisch, trans.
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His­to­ri­ans of the Jews and the Holocaust
David Engel
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Jew­ish Prop­er­ty Claims Against Arab Countries
Michael R. Fischbach
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Cos­mopoli­tans: A Social & Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of the Jews of the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area
Fred Rosenbaum
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97 Orchard: An Edi­ble His­to­ry of Five Immi­grant Fam­i­lies in One New York Tenement
Jane Ziegelman
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Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture in Amer­i­ca: 1870 – 2000
Emanuel S. Goldsmith; Barnett Zumoff, trans.
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Kings and Car­pen­ters: One Hun­dred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Planned
Laurie Coulter; Martha Newbigging, illus.
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