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    Cover of The Rise of Modern Yiddish Cullture
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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 Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity
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    Demon­ic Desires: Yet­zer Hara and the Prob­lem of Evil in Late Antiquity
    Ishay Rosen-Zvi
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    The First Mod­ern Jew: Spin­oza and the His­to­ry of an Image
    Daniel B. Schwartz
    Cover of Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim
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    Curs­ing the Chris­tians?: A His­to­ry of the Birkat HaMinim
    Ruth Langer
    Cover of Mielec, Poland: The Shtetl That Became a Nazi Concentration Camp
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    Mielec, Poland: The Shtetl That Became a Nazi Con­cen­tra­tion Camp
    Rochelle G. Saidel
    Cover of The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism
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    The Rise of the Indi­vid­ual in 1950s Israel: A Chal­lenge to Collectivism
    Orit Rozin
    Cover of Jewish Major Leaguers in Their Own Words: Oral Histories of 23 Players
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    Jew­ish Major Lea­guers in Their Own Words: Oral His­to­ries of 23 Players
    Peter Ephross with Martin Abramowitz
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    The Hebrew Book in Ear­ly Mod­ern Italy
    Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, eds.
    Cover of Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
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    Gold­en Har­vest: Events at the Periph­ery of the Holocaust
    Jan Tomasz Gross with Irena Grudzinska Gross
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    Foun­da­tion­al Pasts: The Holo­caust as His­tor­i­cal Understanding
    Alon Confino
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    Chelm­no and the Holo­caust: A His­to­ry of Hitler’s First Death Camp
    Patrick Montague
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    Chil­dren’s
    Jew­ish Stories
    Anita Ganeri, Rachel Phillips, Illustrator
    Cover of Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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    Two Nations in Your Womb: Per­cep­tions of Jews and Chris­tians in Late Antiq­ui­ty and the Mid­dle Ages
    Israel Jacob Yuval
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    A Strange Death: A Sto­ry Orig­i­nat­ing in Espi­onage, Betray­al, and Vengeance in a Vil­lage in Old Palestine
    Hillel Halkin
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