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    Jew­ish Rad­i­cals: A Doc­u­men­tary History
    Tony Michels
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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.)
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    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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    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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    Fake Papers: Sur­vival Lessons from Grand­ma’s Escape
    Aaron Rock­ett
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    Dis­si­dent Rab­bi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas
    Yaacob Dweck
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    Lethal Provo­ca­tion: The Con­stan­tine Mur­ders and the Pol­i­tics of French Algeria
    Joshua Cole
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    The Lost Girls of Paris
    Pam Jenoff
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    Bit­ter Reck­on­ing: Israel Tries Holo­caust Sur­vivors as Nazi Collaborators
    Dan Porat
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