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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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    A Rosen­berg by Any Oth­er Name: A His­to­ry of Jew­ish Name Chang­ing in America
    Kirsten Fer­maglich
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    The World of Auf­bau: Hitler’s Refugees in America
    Peter Schrag
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    Call Me Phae­dra: The Life and Times of Move­ment Lawyer Fay Stender
    Lise Pearl­man
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    Extract­ed: Unmask­ing Ram­pant Anti­semitism in Amer­i­ca’s High­er Education
    S. Per­ry Brickman
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    The Nightin­gale’s Sonata: The Musi­cal Odyssey of Lea Luboshutz
    Thomas Wolf
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    The Rise of the Mod­ern Yid­dish Theater
    Alyssa Quint
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    Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Impor­tant Lead­ers Shaped Its Destiny
    Den­nis Ross
    David Makovsky
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    The Plaza: The Secret Life of Amer­i­ca’s Most Famous Hotel
    Julie Satow
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