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    Cover of The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
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    The Sto­ry of the Jews: Find­ing the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD
    Simon Schama
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    The Jew­ish Move­ment in the Sovi­et Union
    Yaacov Ro’i, ed.; George P. Schultz, epilogue
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    A Child of Chris­t­ian Blood: Mur­der and Con­spir­a­cy in Tsarist Rus­sia: The Beilis Blood Libel
    Edmund Levin
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    Days of Deci­sion: Hitler and Kristallnacht
    Andrew Langley
    Cover of The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism
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    The Dev­il That Nev­er Dies: The Rise and Threat of Glob­al Antisemitism
    Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
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    Hot­house: The Art of Sur­vival and the Sur­vival of Art at America’s Most Cel­e­brat­ed Pub­lish­ing House, Far­rar, Straus & Giroux
    Boris Kachka
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    Mis­sion at Nurem­berg: An Amer­i­can Army Chap­lain and the Tri­al of the Nazis
    Tim Townsend
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    SLIMED! An Oral His­to­ry of Nick­elodeon’s Gold­en Age
    Math­ew Klickstein
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    Jew­ish Spain: A Mediter­ranean Memory
    Tabea Alexa Linhard
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    The Geo­graph­i­cal Ency­clo­pe­dia of the Holo­caust in Hungary
    Randolph L. Braham, ed.
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    Unclean Lips: Jews, Obscen­i­ty, and Amer­i­can Culture
    Josh Lambert
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    Lithuan­ian Yeshiv­as of the Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry: Cre­at­ing a Tra­di­tion of Learning
    Shaul Stampfer; Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, trans.
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    The Lega­cy: Teach­ings for Life from the Great Lithuan­ian Rabbis
    Berel Wein & Warren Goldstein
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    Hatemail: Anti-Semi­tism on Pic­ture Postcards
    Salo Aizenberg; Michael Berenbaum, fwd.
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    Con­test­ed Land, Con­test­ed Mem­o­ry: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
    Jo Roberts
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    Jew­ish Women in Enlight­en­ment Berlin
    Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
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