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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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    We Remem­ber With Rev­er­ence and Love: Amer­i­can Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holo­caust, 1945 – 1962
    Hasia R. Diner
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    Jew­ish Prop­er­ty Claims Against Arab Countries
    Michael R. Fischbach
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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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    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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    The Oth­er Schindlers: Why Some Peo­ple Chose To Save The Jews In The Holocaust
    Agnes Grunwald-Spier; Sir Martin Gilberg, fwd.
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    The Envoy: The Epic Res­cue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desparate Clos­ing Months of World War II
    Alex Kershaw
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    We Are Com­ing Unafraid: The Jew­ish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War
    Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren , 2010. 200 pp. $39.95 ISBN: 978-7425- 5274-6
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    Reassess­ing Jew­ish Life in Medieval Europe
    Robert Chazan
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    Noah Feldman
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