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History

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The Tragedy of Moses
Elliott Kan­bar
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After the Roundup
Richard Kut­ner
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Jew­ish Com­e­dy: A Seri­ous History
Jeremy Dauber Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
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Danc­ing on a Pow­der Keg
Michal Schwartz
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Gor­bachev
William Taub­man
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MacArthur’s Spies
Peter Eis­ner
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Bad Rab­bi And Oth­er Strange but True Sto­ries from the Yid­dish Press
Eddy Port­noy
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The Book Smug­glers: Par­ti­sans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jew­ish Trea­sures from the Nazis
David E. Fishman
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Con­nect­ing with the Enemy
Sheila H. Katz
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Jews and Ukraini­ans: A Mil­len­ni­um of Co-Existence
Paul Robert Magocsi and Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
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Sons and Soldiers
Bruce Hen­der­son
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Amer­i­can Jew­ry: Tran­scend­ing the Euro­pean Experience
Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm
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On Tyran­ny: Twen­ty Lessons from the Twen­ti­eth Century
Tim­o­thy Snyder
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The Holo­caust: A New History
Laurence Rees
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Hitler in Los Ange­les: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hol­ly­wood and America
Steven J. Ross
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Holo­caust Resistance
Craig E. Blohm
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