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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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    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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    In the Demon’s Bed­room: Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture and the Ear­ly Modern
    Jere­my Dauber
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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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    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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    Peter Schäfer
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