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    Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Jew: Learn­ing to Love the Lessons of Jew Hatred
    Raphael Shore
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    Noble Frag­ments: The Grip­ping Sto­ry of the Anti­quar­i­an Book­seller Who Broke Up a Guten­berg Bible
    Michael Vison­tay
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    The Woman With Fifty Faces: Maria Lani & The Great­est Art Heist That Nev­er Was
    Jonathan Lack­man
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    Find­ing Ruby: The Bright and Dark Sides of a Family’s Fer­vent Idealism
    Richard Roth­man
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    Sto­ries They Nev­er Told Us
    Janette Sil­ver­man
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    Paris Under­cov­er: A Wartime Sto­ry of Courage, Friend­ship, and Betrayal
    Matthew Good­man
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    Unveiled: Inside Iran’s #Wom­an­Life­Free­dom Revolt
    Jonathan Harounoff
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    Hid­ing Men­gele: How a Nazi Net­work Har­bored the Angel of Death
    Beti­na Anton
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    No Road Lead­ing Back: An Improb­a­ble Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tan­gled Way We Tell the Sto­ry of the Holocaust
    Chris Heath
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    Two Wheels to Free­dom: The Sto­ry of a Young Jew, Wartime Resis­tance, and a Dar­ing Escape
    Arthur J. Magida
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    Occu­pied Words: What the Holo­caust Did to Yiddish
    Han­nah Pollin-Galay
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    Bad Jew: A Fam­i­ly’s Quest from the Min­sk Ghet­to to Netanyahu’s Israel
    Piotr Smolar; Anthony Roberts, trans.
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    Excerpt — Ein­stein in Kafka­land: How Albert Fell Down the Rab­bit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

    Ken Krim­stein
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    Mak­ing the Rev­o­lu­tion Jewish

    Adam Jort­ner
    August 19, 2024
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    A Promised Land: Jew­ish Patri­ots, the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion, and the Birth of Reli­gious Freedom
    Adam Jort­ner
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    Between the Bridge and the Bar­ri­cade: Jew­ish Trans­la­tion in Ear­ly Mod­ern Europe
    Iris Idel­son-Shein
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