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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
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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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    The Lost Girls of Paris
    Pam Jenoff
    Cover of Bitter Reckoning: Israel Tries Holocaust Survivors as Nazi Collaborators
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    Bit­ter Reck­on­ing: Israel Tries Holo­caust Sur­vivors as Nazi Collaborators
    Dan Porat
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    Sud­den Courage: Youth in France Con­front the Ger­mans, 1940 – 1945
    Ronald Ros­bot­tom
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    Liv­ing in Sil­ver­a­do: Secret Jews in the Sil­ver Min­ing Towns of Colo­nial Mexico
    David M. Gitlitz
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    Good Trou­ble: Lessons from the Civ­il Rights Playbook
    Christo­pher Noxon
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    The Amuse­ment Park: 900 Years of Thrills and Spills, and the Dream­ers and Schemers Who Built Them
    Stephen M. Silverman
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    Edith Halpert, The Down­town Gallery, and the Rise of Amer­i­can Art
    Rebecca Shaykin
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    Assault on Amer­i­can Excellence
    Antho­ny Kronman
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    D‑Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resis­tance, Sab­o­taged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
    Sarah Rose
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    Clear It With Sid!: Sid­ney R. Yates and Fifty Years of Pres­i­dents, Prag­ma­tism, and Pub­lic Service
    Michael Dorf
    George Van Dusen
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