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    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
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    Gen­der and Jew­ish History
    Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, eds.
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    The Jews of San Nicandro
    John A. Davis
    Cover of Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine
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    Ottoman Broth­ers: Mus­lims, Chris­tians and Jews in Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Palestine
    Michelle U. Campos
    Cover of Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation
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    Rab­bis and Rev­o­lu­tion: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation
    Michael Laurence Miller
    Cover of Families, Rabbis, and Education: Traditional Jewish Society in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe
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    Fam­i­lies, Rab­bis, and Edu­ca­tion: Tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish Soci­ety in Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry East­ern Europe
    Shaul Stampfer
    Cover of Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria
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    Arabs of the Jew­ish Faith: The Civ­i­liz­ing Mis­sion in Colo­nial Algeria
    Joshua Schreiers
    Cover of The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845-1945
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    The Col­ors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 – 1945
    George Bornstein
    Cover of The Jewish Odyssey: An Illustrated History
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    The Jew­ish Odyssey: An Illus­trat­ed History
    Marek Halter; Charles Penwarden, trans.
    Cover of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
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    Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
    Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
    Cover of Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jewish Daily Life in the Time of Jesus
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    Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Time of Jesus
    Jodi Magness
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    The Jews of North Africa: From Dido to De Gaulle
    Sarah Taieb-Carlen; Amos Carlen, trans.
    Cover of Sephardi Family Life in the Early Modern Diaspora
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    Sephar­di Fam­i­ly Life in the Ear­ly Mod­ern Diaspora
    Julia R. Lieberman, ed.
    Cover of The Frankfurt Judengasse: Jewish Life in an Early Modern German City
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    The Frank­furt Juden­gasse: Jew­ish Life in an Ear­ly Mod­ern Ger­man City
    Fritz Backhaus, Gisela Engel, Robert Liberles and Margarete Schlüter, eds.
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    Bratisla­va Press­burg Poz­sony: Jew­ish Sec­u­lar Endeav­ors, 1867 – 1938
    A. Robert Neurath
    Cover of Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967
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    Good Arabs: The Israeli Secu­ri­ty Agen­cies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948 – 1967
    Hillel Cohen; Haim Watzman, trans.
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