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    Arab-Israeli Mil­i­tary Forces in an Era of Asym­met­ric Wars
    Anthony H. Cordesman
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    A Con­cise His­to­ry of the Third Reich
    Wolfgang Benz
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    You Nev­er Call! You Nev­er Write!: A His­to­ry of the Jew­ish Mother
    Joyce Antler
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    Michelan­ge­lo in Ravens­bruck: One Wom­an’s War Against the Nazis
    Countess Karolina Lanckoronska
    Cover of Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
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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
    Essay

    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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    Trin­i­ty of Pas­sion: The Lit­er­ary Left and the Antifas­cist Crusade
    Alan M. Wald
    Non­fic­tion
    A His­to­ry of the Jews in the Mod­ern World
    Howard M. Sachar
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    The Hee­bie Jee­bies at CBGB: A Secret His­to­ry of Jew­ish Punk
    Steven Lee Beeber
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    The Fight for Jerusalem: Rad­i­cal Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City
    Dore Gold
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    Inside the Jew­ish Bak­ery: Recipes and Mem­o­ries from the Gold­en Age of Jew­ish Baking
    Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg
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    About Love: Pho­tographs and Films 1973 – 2011
    Anne Wilkes Tucker; Gay Block, photographer
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    Jesus in the Talmud
    Peter Schäfer
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