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Road To Val­or: A True Sto­ry of WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
Aili and Andres McConnon
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Ein­stein’s Jew­ish Sci­ence: Physics at the Inter­sec­tion of Pol­i­tics and Religion
Steven Gim­bel
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Men­achem Begin: A Life
Avi Shilon; Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett, trans.
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The Rest of Us: The Rise of Amer­i­ca’s East­ern Euro­pean Jews
Stephen Birmingham
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Old Lives and New: Sovi­et Immi­grants in Israel and America
Edith Rogovin Frankel
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Where We Once Gath­ered: Lost Syn­a­gogues of Europe
Andrea Strong­wa­ter
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Rebirth
Dave Longeuay
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The Alep­po Codex: A True Sto­ry of Obses­sion, Faith, and the Pur­suit of an Ancient Bible
Mat­ti Friedman
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The Drey­fus Affair: The Scan­dal That Tore France in Two
Piers Paul Read
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Wives With­out Hus­bands: Mar­riage, Deser­tion, and Wel­fare in New York 1900 – 1935
Anna R. Igra
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Hid­den on the Moutain: Sto­ries of Chil­dren Shel­tered From the Nazis in Le Chambon
Deborah Durlans DeSaix, Karen Gray Ruelle
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Fear: Anti-Semi­tism in Poland After Auschwitz
Jan T. Gross
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Jew­ish Resis­tance in Wartime Greece
Steven Bowman
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Where the Debate on Mod­ern Judaism Real­ly Began

Ear­li­er this week, Rab­bi Bar­ry Schwartz wrote about need­ing more Jew­ish debate and the first Jew­ish debate. He will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish Book…
Bar­ry Schwartz
March 30, 2012
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Men of Silk: The Hasidic Con­quest of Pol­ish Jew­ish Society
Glenn Dyn­ner
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Caviar and Ash­es: A War­saw Gen­er­a­tion’s Life and Dealth in Marx­ism, 1918 – 1968
Marci Shore
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