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The Art of Dia­logue in Jew­ish Philosophy
Aaron W. Hughes
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Israel at Six­ty: An Oral His­to­ry of a Nation Reborn
Deborah Hart Strober; Gerald S. Strober
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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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Viteb­sk: The Life of Art
Aleksandra Shatskikh; Katherine Foshko Tsan, trans.
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My Dear Daugh­ter: Rab­bi Ben­jamin Slonik and the Edu­ca­tion of Jew­ish Women in Six­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Poland
Edward Fram
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Rethink­ing Poles and Jews: Trou­bled Past, Brighter Future
Robert Cherry and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, eds.
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50 Jew­ish Artists You Should Know
Edward van Voolen
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Shat­tered Spaces: Encoun­ter­ing Jew­ish Ruins in Post­war Ger­many and Poland
Michael Meng
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