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My Dear Boy: A World War II Sto­ry of Escape, Exile, and Revelation
Joanie Holz­er Schirm
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Rashi’s Com­men­tary on the Torah: Can­on­iza­tion and Resis­tance in the Recep­tion of a Jew­ish Classic
Eric Lawee
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The City Game: Tri­umph, Scan­dal, and a Leg­endary Bas­ket­ball Team
Matthew Good­man
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The Yid­dish His­to­ri­ans and the Strug­gle for a Jew­ish His­to­ry of the Holocaust
Mark L. Smith
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The Pope’s Jews: The Vat­i­can’s Secret Plan to Save the Jews from the Nazis
Gordon Thomas
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Ajax, the Dutch, the War: The Strange Tale of Soc­cer Dur­ing Europe’s Dark­est Hour
Simon Kuper
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Singer’s Type­writer and Mine: Reflec­tions on Jew­ish Culture
Ilan Sta­vans
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The Jew­ish Kul­tur­bund The­atre Com­pa­ny in Nazi Berlin
Rebecca Rovit
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A Jew Among Romans: The Life and Lega­cy of Flav­ius Josephus
Frederic Raphael
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Israel: A History
Anita Shapira
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The Cho­sen Few: How Edu­ca­tion Shaped Jew­ish His­to­ry, 70 – 1492
Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein
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Isaac’s Army: A Sto­ry of Courage and Sur­vival in Nazi-Occu­pied Poland
Matthew Brzezinski
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Res­cu­ing the Chil­dren: The Sto­ry of the Kindertransport
Deborah Hodge
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Super­man Is Jew­ish?: How Com­ic Book Super­heroes Came to Serve Truth, Jus­tice, and the Jew­ish-Amer­i­can Way
Har­ry Brod
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In the Lion’s Shad­ow: The Iran­ian Schindler and his Home­land in the Sec­ond World War
Fariborz Mokhtari
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Mes­sian­ism, Secre­cy and Mys­ti­cism: A New Inter­pre­ta­tion of Ear­ly Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life
Laura Arnold Leibman
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