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    Sons and Soldiers
    Bruce Hen­der­son
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    Non­fic­tion
    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 Camps and Killing Centers
    Craig E. Blohm
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    Holo­caust Res­cue and Liberation
    Craig E. Blohm
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    Holo­caust Resistance
    Craig E. Blohm
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    Chil­dren’s
    Mas­sacre in Munich: How Ter­ror­ists Changed the Olympics and the World
    Don Nardo
    News

    The Holo­caust Book Award in Mem­o­ry of Ernest W. Michel Named for 2017

    JBC Staff
    March 7, 2017
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    The Birth of the Pales­tin­ian Refugee Prob­lem, 1947 – 1949
    Benny Morris
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    City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic His­to­ry of Immi­grant New York
    Tyler Anbinder
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    Mar­tin Gang

    Glenn Frankel
    February 10, 2017
    Essay

    The Return of Stolen Property

    Anders Rydell
    February 9, 2017
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    Yitzhak Rabin: Sol­dier, Leader, Statesman
    Itamar Rabinovich
    Essay

    Dore Schary

    Glenn Frankel
    February 8, 2017
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