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    Cover of An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland
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    An Uncho­sen Peo­ple: Jew­ish Polit­i­cal Reck­on­ing in Inter­war Poland
    Ken­neth B. Moss
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    Belong­ing and Betray­al: How Jews Made the Art World Modern
    Charles Dell­heim
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    The Jew­ish World of Alexan­der Hamilton
    Andrew Por­wanch­er
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    The New York­ers: 31 Remark­able Peo­ple, 400 Years, and the Untold Biog­ra­phy of the World’s Great­est City
    Sam Roberts
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    Filled with Fire and Light: Por­traits and Leg­ends from the Bible, Tal­mud, and Hasidic World 
    Elie Wiesel, Alan Rosen (Editor)
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    A Fortress in Brook­lyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Mak­ing of Hasidic Williamsburg
    Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
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    The Naz­i’s Grand­daugh­ter: How I Dis­cov­ered My Grand­fa­ther Was a War Criminal
    Sil­via Foti
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    The Fab­u­lous Tale of Fish & Chips
    Helaine Becker, Omer Hoffmann (Illustrator)
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    Into the For­est: A Holo­caust Sto­ry of Sur­vival, Tri­umph, and Love
    Rebec­ca Frankel
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    Red Sea Spies: The True Sto­ry of Mossad’s Fake Div­ing Resort
    Raf­fi Berg
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    RBG’s Brave & Bril­liant Women: 33 Jew­ish Women to Inspire Everyone
    Nadine Epstein
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    When I Grow Up: The Lost Auto­bi­ogra­phies of Six Yid­dish Teenagers
    Ken Krim­stein
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    Miss Dior: A Sto­ry of Courage and Couture
    Justine Picardie
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    Under Jerusalem: The Buried His­to­ry of the World’s Most Con­test­ed City
    Andrew Lawler
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    From Africa to Zion: The Shep­herd Boy Who Became Israel’s First Ethiopi­an-Born Journalist
    Dan­ny Abebe
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    Entebbe Declas­si­fied: The Untold First-Hand Sto­ries of the Leg­endary Res­cue Operation
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