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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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    Puri­fy­ing The Nation: Pop­u­la­tion Exchange and Eth­nic Cleans­ing in Nazi-Allied Romania
    Vladimir SOlonari
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    Pales­tin­ian and Israeli Pub­lic Opin­ion: The Pub­lic Imper­a­tive In The Sec­ond Intifada
    Jacob Shamir & Khalil Shikaki
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    Jew­ish Life in Nazi Ger­many: Dilem­mas and Responses
    Francis R. Nicosia and David Scrase, eds.
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    Life in a Jar: The Ire­na Sendler Project
    Jack Mayer
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    Kings and Car­pen­ters: One Hun­dred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Planned
    Laurie Coulter; Martha Newbigging, illus.
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    Ash­es in the Wind: The Destruc­tion of Dutch Jewry
    Dr. Jacob Presser
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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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    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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