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    Cover of Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice
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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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    His­to­ry of Greed: Finan­cial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff
    David E. Y. Sarna
    Cover of In the Demon's Bedroom: Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern
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    In the Demon’s Bed­room: Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture and the Ear­ly Modern
    Jere­my Dauber
    Cover of Once They Had a Country: Two Teenage Refugees in the Second World War
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    Once They Had a Coun­try: Two Teenage Refugees in the Sec­ond World War
    Muriel R. Gillick
    Cover of Dreams of Nationhood: American Jewish Communists and the Soviet Birobidzhan Project, 1924-1951
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    Dreams of Nation­hood: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Com­mu­nists and the Sovi­et Biro­bidzhan Project, 1924 – 1951
    Henry Felix Srebrnik
    Cover of Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland
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    Mod­el Nazi: Arthur Greis­er and the Occu­pa­tion of West­ern Poland
    Catherine Epstein
    Cover of Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry
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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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    New Essays in Amer­i­can Jew­ish History
    Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance J. Sussman, eds.
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    Archi­tects of the Holocaust
    Darlene R. Stille
    Cover of Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land
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    Twen­ti­eth Cen­tu­ry Jews: Forg­ing Iden­ti­ty in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land
    Monty Noam Penkower
    Cover of Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope
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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.
    Cover of Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity, Jewish Cultural Series, Volume Two
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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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    Four Thou­sand Years of Jew­ish His­to­ry: Then and Now
    Jack Lefcourt
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