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    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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    Visu­al Arts
    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
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    The Foot­steps of Israel: Under­stand­ing Jews in Anglo Sax­on England
    Andrew P. Scheil
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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
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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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    Auschwitz: A New History
    Laurence Rees
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    Mod­ern Ladi­no Cul­ture: Press, Belles Let­tres, and The­ater in the Late Ottoman Empire
    Olga Borovaya
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    Inquisi­to­r­i­al Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Oth­er Heretics
    Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
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    Blood Libel: The Dam­as­cus Affair of 1840
    Ronald Florence
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    The Dias­po­ra and the Lost Tribes of Israel
    Amotz Asa-El
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