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Cover of Purifying The Nation: Population Exchange and Ethnic Cleansing in Nazi-Allied Romania
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Puri­fy­ing The Nation: Pop­u­la­tion Exchange and Eth­nic Cleans­ing in Nazi-Allied Romania
Vladimir SOlonari
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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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In the Demon’s Bed­room: Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture and the Ear­ly Modern
Jere­my Dauber
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Once They Had a Coun­try: Two Teenage Refugees in the Sec­ond World War
Muriel R. Gillick
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Dreams of Nation­hood: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Com­mu­nists and the Sovi­et Biro­bidzhan Project, 1924 – 1951
Henry Felix Srebrnik
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Insid­ers and Out­siders: Dilem­mas of East Euro­pean Jewry
Richard I. Cohen, Jonathan Frankel and Stefani Hoffman, eds.
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Mod­el Nazi: Arthur Greis­er and the Occu­pa­tion of West­ern Poland
Catherine Epstein
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Jews and the Civ­il War: A Reader
Jonathan D. Sarna & Adam Mendelsohn, eds.
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Nazi Pales­tine: The Plans for the Exter­mi­na­tion of the Jews in Palestine
Klaus-Michael Mallmann & Martin Cüppers; Krista Smith, trans.
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Swim­ming in the Day­light: An Amer­i­can Stu­dent, a Sovi­et-Jew­ish Dis­si­dent, and the Gift of Hope
Lisa C. Paul
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The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years
Klaus Gensicke; Alexander Fraser Gunn, trans.
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Jews at Home: The Domes­ti­ca­tion of Iden­ti­ty, Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Series, Vol­ume Two
Simon J. Bronner, ed.
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The Ori­gins of Jew­ish Mysticism
Peter Schäfer
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My Times & Life: A His­to­ri­an’s Progress Through a Con­tentious Age
Morton Keller
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