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Death March Escape: The Remark­able Sto­ry of a Man who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
Jack J. Hersch
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The Tri­al of the Tal­mud: Paris, 1240
John Friedman, Jean Connell Hoff & Robert Chazan
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The Pen­du­lum: A Grand­daugh­ter’s Search for Her Fam­i­ly’s For­bid­den Nazi Past
Julie Lin­dahl
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Hen­ry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Bat­tle Against Hate Speech
Victoria Saker Woeste
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Lady at the O.K. Cor­ral: The True Sto­ry of Josephine Mar­cus Earp
Ann Kirschn­er
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The Bat­tle for Jerusalem: An Unin­tend­ed Conquest
Abra­ham Rabinovich
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The Boy in the Suit­case: Holo­caust Sto­ries of Survival
Sheryl Nee­dle Cohn
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The Vio­lin
David Schoen­baum
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From Kristall­nacht to Water­gate: Mem­oirs of a Newspaperman
Har­ry Rosenfeld
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State of Fail­ure: Yass­er Arafat, Mah­moud Abbas, and the Unmak­ing of the Pales­tin­ian State
Jonathan Schanz­er
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Jew­ish Way­far­ers in Mod­ern Chi­na: Tragedy and Splendor
Matthias Messmer
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The Searchers
Glenn Frankel
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Amer­i­can Jews and Amer­i­ca’s Game
Lar­ry Ruttman
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The Pow­er of Cit­i­zen­ship: Why John F. Kennedy Mat­ters to a New Generation
Scott Reich
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Augie’s Secrets: The Min­neapo­lis Mob and the King of the Hen­nepin Strip
Neal Karlen
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Last Chance for Justice
T.K. Thorne
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