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    Cover of The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science, Including Original Papers
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    The Dis­cov­er­ies: Great Break­throughs in 20th Cen­tu­ry Sci­ence, Includ­ing Orig­i­nal Papers
    Alan Light­man
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    The Ellis Island Snow Globe
    Erica Rand
    Cover of American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America 1957-1965
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    Amer­i­can Dreams and Nazi Night­mares: Ear­ly Holo­caust Con­scious­ness and Lib­er­al Amer­i­ca 1957 – 1965
    Kristen Fermaglich
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    Jew­ish Immi­grants 1880 – 1924: Com­ing to Amer­i­ca Series
    Susan E. Haberle
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    Two Thou­sand Years of Jew­ish Life in Morocco
    Haim Zafrani
    Cover of The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents From the Cairo Geniza
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    The Voice of the Poor in the Mid­dle Ages: An Anthol­o­gy of Doc­u­ments From the Cairo Geniza
    Mark Cohen
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    Pil­grim­age and the Jews
    David M. Gitlitz, Linda Kay Davidson
    Cover of Fire and Song: The Story of Luis de Carvajal and the Mexican Inquisition
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    Fire and Song: The Sto­ry of Luis de Car­va­jal and the Mex­i­can Inquisition
    Anna Lanyon
    Cover of People of the Book: Philosemitism in England from Cromwell to Churchill
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    Peo­ple of the Book: Philosemitism in Eng­land from Cromwell to Churchill
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
    Cover of You Need a Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald, and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South
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    You Need a School­house: Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Julius Rosen­wald, and the Build­ing of Schools for the Seg­re­gat­ed South
    Stephanie Deutsch
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    Jour­ney to Heav­en: Explor­ing Jew­ish Views of the Afterlife
    Leila Leah Bronner
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    Zion­ism: A Brief History
    Michael Brenner; Shelley Frisch, trans.
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    The Rise of Mod­ern Yid­dish Cullture
    David E. Fishman
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    The Nat­ur­al His­to­ry of the Bible: An Envi­ron­men­tal Explo­ration of the Hebrew Scriptures
    Daniel Hillel
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    Where God Was Born
    Bruce Feiler
    Cover of Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived
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    Remem­ber­ing: Voic­es of the Holo­caust: A New His­to­ry in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived
    Lyn Smith
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