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    In the Demon’s Bed­room: Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture and the Ear­ly Modern
    Jere­my Dauber
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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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    His­to­ry Lessons: The Cre­ation of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Heritage
    Beth S. Wenger
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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
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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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    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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    Ottoman Broth­ers: Mus­lims, Chris­tians and Jews in Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Palestine
    Michelle U. Campos
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    Rab­bis and Rev­o­lu­tion: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation
    Michael Laurence Miller
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    Fam­i­lies, Rab­bis, and Edu­ca­tion: Tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish Soci­ety in Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry East­ern Europe
    Shaul Stampfer
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    Arabs of the Jew­ish Faith: The Civ­i­liz­ing Mis­sion in Colo­nial Algeria
    Joshua Schreiers
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    George Bornstein
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