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Ben­ny Good­man & Ted­dy Wil­son: Tak­ing the Stage as the First Black-and-White Jazz Band in History
Lesa Cline-Ransome; James Ransome, illus.
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A Cho­sen Call­ing: Jews in Sci­ence in the Twen­ti­eth Century
Noah J. Efron
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Hid­den Like Anne Frank: 14 True Sto­ries of Survival
Marcel Prins & Peter Henk Steenhuis
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The Vet­er­ans of His­to­ry: A Young Per­son­’s His­to­ry of the Jews
Mitchell Silver
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After They Closed the Gates: Jew­ish Ille­gal Immi­gra­tion to the Unit­ed States, 1921 – 1965
Libby Garland
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The Long Life and Swift Death of Jew­ish Rechit­sa: A Com­mu­ni­ty in Belarus, 1625 – 2000
Albert Kaganovitch
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The Faith of Fall­en Jews: Yosef Hay­im Yerushal­mi and the Writ­ing of Jew­ish History
David N. Myers & Alexander Kaye, eds.
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We Called Him Rab­bi Abra­ham: Lin­coln and Amer­i­can Jew­ry, A Doc­u­men­tary History
Gary Philip Zola
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Nazis, Islamists, and the Mak­ing of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East
Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
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The Ambi­gu­i­ty of Virtue: Gertrude Van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews
Bernard Wasserstein
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West­ern Jews in India: From the Fif­teenth Cen­tu­ry to the Present
Kenneth X. Robbins & Marvin Tokayer, eds.
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Why the Ger­mans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Pre­his­to­ry of the Holocaust
Götz Aly; Jefferson Chase, trans.
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A His­tor­i­cal Look at Jews in the Work of Shakespeare

Lois Lev­een is the author of Juli­et’s Nurse and The Secrets of Mary Bows­er. She has been blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book Coun­cil’s Vis­it­ing Scribe…
Lois Lev­een
October 1, 2014
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The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau’s School for Girls, 1900 – 1960
Laura Schor
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The Yom Kip­pur War: Pol­i­tics, Diplo­ma­cy, Legacy
Asaf Siniver
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A World With­out Jews: The Nazi Imag­i­na­tion From Per­se­cu­tion to Genocide
Alon Confino
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