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Cover of Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark
Non­fic­tion
Courage & Defi­ance: Sto­ries of Spies, Sabo­teurs, and Sur­vivors in World War II Denmark
Deborah Hopkinson
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Chil­dren’s
Anti-Semi­tism: Jew­ish Immi­grants Seek Safe­ty in Amer­i­ca (1881−1914)
Dava Pressberg
Cover of Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism
Non­fic­tion
Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Yid­dish­land: A His­to­ry of Jew­ish Radicalism
Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg
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Non­fic­tion
The Star and the Stripes: A His­to­ry of the For­eign Poli­cies of Amer­i­can Jews
Michael N. Barnett
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Non­fic­tion
The Holo­caust: His­to­ry and Memory
Jeremy M. Black
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Non­fic­tion
Mod­ern Ortho­dox Judaism: A Doc­u­men­tary History
Zev Eleff; Jacob J. Schacter, fwd.
Cover of Purchasing Power: The Economics of Modern Jewish History
Non­fic­tion
Pur­chas­ing Pow­er: The Eco­nom­ics of Mod­ern Jew­ish History
Rebecca Kobrin and Adam Teller, eds.
Cover of Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America
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Immi­grants Against the State: Yid­dish and Ital­ian Anar­chism in America
Kenyon Zimmer
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Imbe­ciles: The Supreme Court, Amer­i­can Eugen­ics, and the Ster­il­iza­tion of Car­rie Buck
Adam Cohen
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The Angel: The Egypt­ian Spy Who Saved Israel
Uri Bar-Joseph
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Non­fic­tion
Israel: A Con­cise His­to­ry of a Nation Reborn
Daniel Gordis
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Chil­dren’s
The Tree in the Courtyard
Jeff Gottesfeld, illustrated by Peter McCarty
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The Peo­ple and the Books
Adam Kirsch
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Stars in the Ring
Mike Sil­ver
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Non­fic­tion
Escape to Vir­ginia: From Nazi Ger­many to Thalhimer’s Farm
Robert H. Gillette
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The Nazi Hunters
Andrew Nagors­ki
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