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    Cover of Arrows in the Dark: David Ben-Gurion, the Yishuv Leadership, and Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust
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    Arrows in the Dark: David Ben-Guri­on, the Yishuv Lead­er­ship, and Res­cue Attempts Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Tuvia Friling; Ora Cummings, trans
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    The Jew­ess Pal­las Athena: This Too a The­o­ry of Modernity
    Barbara Hahn
    Cover of The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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    The Lie That Would­n’t Die: The Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion
    Hadassa Ben-Itto
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    Lessons and Lega­cies, Vol. VI: New Cur­rents in Holo­caust Research
    Jeffrey M. Diefendorf, ed.
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    The Tem­ple of Jerusalem
    Simon Goldhill
    Cover of Jewish Displaced Persons in Camp Bergen-Belsen 1945-1950: The Unique Photo Album of Zippy Orlin
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    Jew­ish Dis­placed Per­sons in Camp Bergen-Belsen 1945 – 1950: The Unique Pho­to Album of Zip­py Orlin
    Erik Somers and Rene Kok, eds.
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    Why the Jews Reject­ed Jesus: The Turn­ing Point in West­ern History
    David Klinghoffer
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    The Ran­som of the Jews: The Sto­ry of the Extra­or­di­nary Secret Bar­gain Between Roma­nia and Israel
    Radu Ioanid
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    From Joshua to Caiaphas High Priests After the Exile
    James C. Vanderkam
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    In Har­ness: Yid­dish Writ­ers’ Romance With Communism
    Gennady Estraikh
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    A Brief His­to­ry of the Jew­ish People
    Moshe Weiss
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    Gen­der and Jew­ish Dif­fer­ence From Paul to Shakespeare
    Lisa Lampert
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    The Exe­cu­tion of the Hang­man of Riga: The Only Exe­cu­tion of a Nazi War Crim­i­nal by the Mossad
    Anton Kuenzle; Gad Shimron; Uriel Masad, trans.
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    The Provin­cials: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of Jews in the South
    Eli N. Evans
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    How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
    Danny Goldberg
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    Haunt­ed in the New World: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Cul­ture From Cahan to the Goldbergs
    Donald Weber
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