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    The Yad Vashem Ency­clo­pe­dia of the Ghet­tos Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Guy Miren, ed.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Joshua Holo
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