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    Jew­ish Girls Com­ing of Age in Amer­i­ca 1860 – 1920
    Melissa R. Klapper
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    Ladies and Gen­tle­men, The Bronx is Burn­ing: 1977, Base­ball, Pol­i­tics and the Bat­tle for the Soul of the City
    Jonathan Mahler
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    Liv­ing Through World War II
    Andrew Langley
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    Jerusalem Sky: Stars, Cross­es, and Crescents
    Mark Pod­w­al
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    The Birth of Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Dis­ci­ples and the Cre­ation of an Amer­i­can Reli­gious Movement
    Michael R. Cohen
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    The Age of Insight: The Quest to Under­stand the Uncon­scious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vien­na 1900 to the Present
    Eric R. Kandel
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    Tel-Aviv, the First Cen­tu­ry. Visions, Designs, Actualities
    Maoz Azaryahu and S. Ilan Troen, eds.
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    In Our Own Voic­es: A Guide to Con­duct­ing Life His­to­ry Inter­views with Amer­i­can Jew­ish Women
    Jewish Women’s Archive, ed.
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    Mak­ing the Bible Mod­ern: Chil­dren’s Bibles and Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion in Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry America
    Penny Schine Gold
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    On Wings of Eagles: The Secret Oper­a­tion of the Ethiopi­an Exodus
    Micha Feldmann
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    Princess or Pris­on­er?: Jew­ish Women in Jerusalem, 1840 – 1914
    Margalit Shilo
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    A Titan­ic Love Sto­ry: Ida and Isidor Straus
    June Hall McCash
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    Sol­diers and Slaves: Amer­i­can POWS Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble
    Roger Cohen
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    Ponary Diary, July 1941-Novem­ber 1943: A Bystander’s Account of a Mass Murder
    Kazimierz Sakowicz, Yitzhak Arad, ed.
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    Oppor­tu­ni­ties That Pass: A His­tor­i­cal Miscellany
    Cecil Roth; Israel Finestein, Joseph Roth, eds.
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    Yid­dish and the Cre­ation of Sovi­et Jew­ish Cul­ture 1918 – 1930
    David Shneer
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