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    Hitler and the Hab­s­burgs: The Fuhrer’s Vendet­ta Against the Aus­tri­an Royals
    James Lon­go
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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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    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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    Res­cu­ing the Chil­dren: The Sto­ry of the Kindertransport
    Deborah Hodge
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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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    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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    Sci­ence in Medieval Jew­ish Cultures
    Gad Freudenthal, ed.
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    Col­lect and Record: Jew­ish Holo­caust Doc­u­men­ta­tion in Ear­ly Post­war Europe
    Laura Jockusch
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    The Jew­ish Dark Con­ti­nent: Life and Death in the Russ­ian Pale of Settlement.
    Nathaniel Deutsch
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