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Cover of Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391
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Between Chris­t­ian and Jew: Con­ver­sion and Inqui­si­tion in the Crown of Aragon, 1250 – 1391
Paola Tartakoff
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Eyes of Mem­o­ry: Pho­tographs from the Archive of Her­bert and Leni Sonnenfeld
Leni Sonnenfeld
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There Was A Fire: Jews, Music and the Amer­i­can Dream
Ben Sidran
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Jew­ish Maxwell Street Stories
Shuli Eshel and Roger Schatz
Cover of DNA & Tradition: The Genertic Link to the Ancient Hebrews
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DNA & Tra­di­tion: The Gen­er­tic Link to the Ancient Hebrews
Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman
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A His­to­ry of the Holocaust
Saul S. Friedman
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Isaac Bashe­vis Singer and the Low­er East Side
Isaac Bashevis Singer; Bruce Davidson, photographs
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Escap­ing Auschwitz: A Cul­ture of Forgetting
Ruth Linn
Cover of Fratricide in the Holy Land: A Psychoanalytical View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Frat­ri­cide in the Holy Land: A Psy­cho­an­a­lyt­i­cal View of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Avner Falk
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Hitler’s Pris­ons: Legal Ter­ror in Nazi Germany
Nikolaus Wachsmann
Cover of The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo Saxon England
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The Foot­steps of Israel: Under­stand­ing Jews in Anglo Sax­on England
Andrew P. Scheil
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Eye­wit­ness to Jew­ish History
Rabbi Benjamin Blech
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The Dynam­ics of Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: Jacob Rad­er Mar­cus’s Essays on Amer­i­can Jewry
Gary Phillip Zola, ed.
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The Dic­ta­tors: Hitler’s Ger­many, Stal­in’s Russia
Richard Overy
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A Jew­ish Renais­sance in Fif­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Spain
Mark D. Meyerson
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Har­vest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule
Karel C. Berkhoff
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