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Hus­tling Hitler: The Jew­ish Vaude­vil­lian Who Fooled the Fuhrer
Wal­ter Shapiro
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Con­tra­band: Smug­gling and the Birth of the Amer­i­can Century
Andrew Wen­der Cohen
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No Bet­ter Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extra­or­di­nary Sto­ry of Courage and Suvi­val in WWII
Robert S. Weintraub
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1932: The Rise of Hitler and FDR-Two Tales of Pol­i­tics Betray­al and Unlike­ly Destiny
David Pietrusza
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Anony­mous Sol­diers: The Strug­gle For Israel, 1917 – 1947
Bruce Hoff­man
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The Jew­ish Olympics: The His­to­ry of the Mac­cabi­ah Games
Ron Kaplan
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Killing a King: The Assas­si­na­tion of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remak­ing of Israel
Dan Ephron
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Inter­view: Jonathan D. Sarna

Lin­coln and the Jews: A His­to­ry by Jonathan D. Sar­na and Ben­jamin Shapell chron­i­cles the extra­or­di­nary rela­tion­ship between Pres­i­dent Abra­ham Lin­coln and…
Elise Coop­er
May 19, 2015
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Amer­i­can Jour­neys: From Ire­land to the Pacif­ic North­west: (1847−1854) Book 1
Richard Alan
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Chas­ing Gold: The Incred­i­ble Sto­ry of How the Nazis Stole Europe’s Bullion
George M. Taber
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Jew­ish New York: A His­to­ry and Guide to Neigh­bor­hoods, Syn­a­gogues, and Eateries
Paul M. Kaplan
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The Mur­der of William of Nor­wich: The Ori­gins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
E.M. Rose
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Women of Val­or: Pol­ish Resisters to the Third Reich
Joanne D. Gilbert
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The Archive Thief: The Man Who Sal­vaged French Jew­ish His­to­ry in the Wake of the Holocaust
Lisa Moses Leff
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Days of Ticho: Empire, Man­date, Med­i­cine, and Art in the Holy Land
David Rei­fler
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Shock­ing Paris: Sou­tine, Cha­gall and the Out­siders of Montparnasse
Stan­ley Meisler
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