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    Ash­es in the Wind: The Destruc­tion of Dutch Jewry
    Dr. Jacob Presser
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    Crown of Alep­po: The Mys­tery of the Old­est Hebrew Bible Codex
    Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider
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    Peace in the Mak­ing: The Men­achem Begin-Anwar El-Sadat Per­son­al Correspondence
    Harry Hurwitz and Yisrael Medad, ed.
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    The Wit­ness House: Nazis and Holo­caust Sur­vivors Shar­ing A Vil­la Dur­ing the Nurem­berg Trials
    Christiane Kohl; Anthea Bell, trans.
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    The Death March­es: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
    Daniel Blatman; Chaya Galai, trans.
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    His­tor­i­cal Dic­tio­nary of the Holo­caust, 2nd Edition
    Jack Fischel
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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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    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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    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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    Reassess­ing Jew­ish Life in Medieval Europe
    Robert Chazan
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    Scor­pi­ons: The Bat­tles and the Tri­umphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices
    Noah Feldman
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    Sex­u­al Vio­lence Against Jew­ish Women Dur­ing The Holocaust
    Sonia M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel, eds.
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    Sacred Trea­sure — The Cairo Genizah: The Amaz­ing Dis­cov­er­ies of For­got­ten Jew­ish His­to­ry in an Egypt­ian Syn­a­gogue Attic
    Rabbi Mark Glickman
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    Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
    Charles King
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    His­to­ry of Greed: Finan­cial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff
    David E. Y. Sarna
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    Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jew­ish Col­lec­tors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice
    Melissa Müller and Monika Tatzkow
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