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The Jew­ish Odyssey: An Illus­trat­ed History
Marek Halter; Charles Penwarden, trans.
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Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
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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.
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Halakhah in the Mak­ing: The Devel­op­ment of Jew­ish Law from Qum­ran to the Rabbis
Aharon Shemesh
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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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The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940 – 1945
Steven B. Bowman
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WWII Behind Closed Doors — Stal­in, The Nazis and The West
Laurence Rees
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The Holo­caust in the Sovi­et Union
Yitzhak Arad; Ora Cummings, trans.
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They Dared Return: The True Sto­ry of Jew­ish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany
Patrick K. O’Donnell
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The Oth­er Zions: The Lost His­to­ries of Jew­ish Nations
Eric Maroney
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The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower
Stephen H. Norwood
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Kristall­nacht 1938
Alan E. Steinweis
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Recon­struct­ing Ashke­naz: The Human Face of Fran­co-Ger­man Jew­ry, 1000 – 1250
David Malkiel
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Ghosts of Home: The After­life of Czer­nowitz in Jew­ish Memory
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
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Think­ing in Dark Times: Han­nah Arendt on Ethics and Politics
Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan, eds.
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