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Cover of The Rarest Blue: The Remarkable Story of an Ancient Color Lost to History and Rediscovered
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The Rarest Blue: The Remark­able Sto­ry of an Ancient Col­or Lost to His­to­ry and Rediscovered
Baruch Sterman with Judy Taubes Sterman
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The Posen Library of Jew­ish Cul­ture and Civ­i­liza­tion, Vol­ume 10: 1973 – 2005
Deborah Dash Moore and Nurith Gertz, eds.
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Jew­ish Rad­i­cals: A Doc­u­men­tary History
Tony Michels
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Cho­sen Cap­i­tal: The Jew­ish Encounter with Amer­i­can Capitalism
Rebecca Kobrin, ed.
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Fran­ci’s War: A Wom­an’s Sto­ry of Survival 
Franci Rabinek Epstein (auth.), Helen Epstein (fwd.)
Cover of Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
Visu­al Arts
Col­ors of Con­fine­ment: Rare Kodachrome Pho­tographs of Japan­ese Amer­i­can Incar­cer­a­tion in World War II
Eric L. Muller, ed.; Bill Manbo, photographer
Cover of A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1800-1960
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A Per­fect Fit: The Gar­ment Indus­try and Amer­i­can Jew­ry, 1800 – 1960
Gabriel M. Goldstein and Elizabeth E. Greenberg, eds.
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City of Promis­es: A His­to­ry of the Jews of New York, With a Visu­al Essay by Diana L. Linden
Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed.
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Pover­ty and Wel­fare among the Por­tuguese Jews of Ear­ly Mod­ern Amsterdam
Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
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Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
Bracha Yaniv
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The Wed­ding Photo
Dan A. Oren
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My Soul is Filled with Joy: A Holo­caust Story
Karen Treiger
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A Mor­tu­ary of Books: The Res­cue of Jew­ish Cul­ture after the Holocaust
Elisabeth Gallas, Alex Skinner (trans.)
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Hitler and the Hab­s­burgs: The Fuhrer’s Vendet­ta Against the Aus­tri­an Royals
James Lon­go
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Dan­ger­ous Melodies: Clas­si­cal Music in Amer­i­ca from the Great War through the Cold War
Jonathan Rosen­berg
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Lega­cy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Rit­u­al Mur­der in the Lands of the Soviets
Elis­sa Bemporad
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