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    Cover of A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History
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    A Mur­der in Lem­berg: Pol­i­tics, Reli­gion, and Vio­lence in Mod­ern Jew­ish History
    Michael Stanislawski
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    The Steins Col­lect: Matisse, Picas­so, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
    Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds.
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    Say­ing New Things About Old His­tor­i­cal Episodes

    Ear­li­er this week, Dr. Jonathan Sar­na wrote about writ­ing his most recent book, When Gen­er­al Grant Expelled the Jews, in Jerusalem. He has been blog­ging here all week for…
    Jonathan D. Sarna
    March 15, 2012
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    A Portable God: The Ori­gin of Judaism and Christianity
    Risa Levitt Kohn; Rebecca Moore
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    Lost Years: Bush, Sharon and Fail­ure in the Mid­dle East
    Mark Matthews
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    The Art of Dia­logue in Jew­ish Philosophy
    Aaron W. Hughes
    Cover of Israel at Sixty: An Oral History of a Nation Reborn
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    Israel at Six­ty: An Oral His­to­ry of a Nation Reborn
    Deborah Hart Strober; Gerald S. Strober
    Cover of Terror in Black September: The First Eyewitness Account of the Infamous 1970 Hijackings
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    Ter­ror in Black Sep­tem­ber: The First Eye­wit­ness Account of the Infa­mous 1970 Hijackings
    David Raab
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    Erased: Van­ish­ing Traces of Jew­ish Gali­cia in Present-Day Ukraine
    Omer Bar­tov
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    Weimar Ger­many: Promise and Tragedy
    Eric D. Weitz
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    When Gen­er­al Grant Expelled the Jews
    Jonathan D. Sarna
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    Hitler­land: Amer­i­can Eye­wit­ness­es to the Nazi Rise to Power
    Andrew Nagors­ki
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    The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of Amer­i­ca’s Banana King
    Rich Cohen
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    The Sto­ry of Yid­dish: How a Mish-mosh of Lan­guages Saved the Jews
    Neal Karlen
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    Zion Before Zion­ism: 1838 – 1880
    Arnold Blumberg
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    Jews, Ger­mans, and Allies: Close Encoun­ters in Occu­pied Germany
    Atina Grossmann
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