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    The Cri­sis of Zionism
    Peter Beinart
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    A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordi­nary Nazis and the Holocaust
    Mary Ful­brook
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    Eat the City: A Tale of the Fish­ers, For­agers, Butch­ers, Farm­ers, Poul­try Min­ders, Sug­ar Refin­ers, Cane Cut­ters, Bee­keep­ers, Wine­mak­ers, and Brew­ers Who Built New York
    Robin Shulman
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    What’s Legal
    Lee Crane
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    Judg­ment Before Nurem­berg: The Holo­caust in the Ukraine and the First Nazi War Crime Trial
    Greg Daw­son
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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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