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    The Sto­ry of an Under­ground: The Resis­tance of the Jews of Kovno in the Sec­ond World War
    Dov Levin and Zvie A. Brown; Jessica Setbon, trans.
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    Anne Frank and the Remem­ber­ing Tree
    Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; Erika Steiskal, illus.
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    The Man Who Stalked Ein­stein: How Nazi Sci­en­tist Philipp Lenard Changed the Course of History
    Bruce J. Hillman
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    The Nazi Offi­cer’s Wife: How One Jew­ish Woman Sur­vived the Holocaust
    Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin
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    Tra­di­tion­al Soci­ety in Tran­si­tion: The Yemeni Jew­ish Experience
    Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman
    Cover of The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed America
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    The Catskills: Its His­to­ry and How It Changed America
    Raphael D. Silver
    Stephen M. Silverman
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    Read­ing Claudius: A Mem­oir in Two Parts
    Car­o­line Heller
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    Hus­tling Hitler: The Jew­ish Vaude­vil­lian Who Fooled the Fuhrer
    Wal­ter Shapiro
    Cover of No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Suvival in WWII
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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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    Andrew Wen­der Cohen
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