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    Hag­gadah for the Fifth Child: A Fes­tive Dis­cus­sion on the Exo­dus and History
    Donald B. Susswein
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    Oper­a­tion Exo­dus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land, A Per­ilous Jour­ney that Shaped Israel’s Fate
    Gordon Thomas
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    A Child Al Con­fi­no: The True Sto­ry of a Jew­ish Boy and His Moth­er in Mus­solin­i’s Italy
    Eric Lamet
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    Nazi Pro­pa­gan­da for the Arab World
    Jeffrey Herf
    Cover of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume 1
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    The Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um Ency­clo­pe­dia of Camps and Ghet­tos, 1933 – 1945, Vol­ume 1
    Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed.
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    From Empa­thy to Denial: Arab Respons­es to the Holocaust
    Meir Litvak and Esther Webman
    Cover of Nitzotz: The Spark of Resistance of Kovno Ghetto and Dachau-Kaufering Concentration Camp
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    Nit­zotz: The Spark of Resis­tance of Kovno Ghet­to and Dachau-Kaufer­ing Con­cen­tra­tion Camp
    Laura Weinrib, ed. and intro; Estee Weinrib, trans.
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    Mem­oirs of a Grand­moth­er: Scenes from the Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of the Jews of Rus­sia in the Nine­teenth Century
    Pauline Wengeroff; Shulamit S. Magnus, trans. with notes and commentary
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    Lit­er­ary Pass­ports: The Mak­ing of Mod­ernist Hebrew Fic­tion in Europe
    Shachar M. Pinsker
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    An Edu­cat­ed Man: A Dual Biog­ra­phy of Moses and Jesus
    David Rosen­berg
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    The Ori­gins of Jew­ish Sec­u­lar­iza­tion in Eigh­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Europe
    Shmuel Feiner; Chaya Naor, trans.
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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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