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    Cover of Zion Before Zionism: 1838-1880
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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
    Cover of Vitebsk: The Life of Art
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    Viteb­sk: The Life of Art
    Aleksandra Shatskikh; Katherine Foshko Tsan, trans.
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    50 Jew­ish Artists You Should Know
    Edward van Voolen
    Cover of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland
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    Shat­tered Spaces: Encoun­ter­ing Jew­ish Ruins in Post­war Ger­many and Poland
    Michael Meng
    Cover of Judaism's Great Debates: Timeless Controversies from Abraham to Herzl
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    Judais­m’s Great Debates: Time­less Con­tro­ver­sies from Abra­ham to Herzl
    Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz
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    Jerusalem’s Tem­ple Mount: From Solomon to the Gold­en Dome
    Hershel Shanks
    Cover of Vienna is Different: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin de Siècle to the Present
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    Vien­na is Dif­fer­ent: Jew­ish Writ­ers in Aus­tria from the Fin de Siè­cle to the Present
    Hillary Hope Herzog
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    Dis­guised as Clark Kent: Jews, Comics, and the Cre­ation of the Superhero
    Danny Fingeroth; Stan Lee, fwd.
    Cover of The Censor, The Editor, and The Text: The Catholic Church and The Shaping of The Jewish Canon in The Sixteenth Century
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    The Cen­sor, The Edi­tor, and The Text: The Catholic Church and The Shap­ing of The Jew­ish Canon in The Six­teenth Century
    Amnon Raz-Krakorzkin; Jackie Feldman, trans.
    Cover of The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-Year Retrospective on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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    The Para­noid Apoc­a­lypse: A Hun­dred-Year Ret­ro­spec­tive on The Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion
    Richard Landes and Steven T. Katz, eds.
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    They Called Me May­er July: Paint­ed Mem­o­ries of a Jew­ish Child­hood in Poland Before the Holocaust
    Mayer Kirshenblatt; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
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    The Moscow Yid­dish The­ater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution
    Benjamin Harshav; Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, trans.
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    After Eman­ci­pa­tion: Jew­ish Reli­gious Respons­es to Modernity
    David Ellenson
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    Kristall­nacht, The Night of Bro­ken Glass: Ignit­ing the Nazi War Against Jews
    Stephanie Fitzgerald
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    The Shift: Israel-Pales­tine From Bor­der Strug­gle to Eth­nic Conflict
    Menachem Klein
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