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    Cover of The Road to Fatima Gate: The Beirut Spring, The Rise of Hezbollah and The Iranian War Against Israel
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    The Road to Fati­ma Gate: The Beirut Spring, The Rise of Hezbol­lah and The Iran­ian War Against Israel
    Michael J. Totten
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    The Shift: Israel-Pales­tine From Bor­der Strug­gle to Eth­nic Conflict
    Menachem Klein
    Cover of Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust
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    Dar­ing to Resist: Jew­ish Defi­ance in the Holocaust
    David Engel and Eva Fogelman; Yitzchak Mais, ed.
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    Greece: A Jew­ish History
    K. E. Fleming
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    Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Rad­i­cal Islam
    David G. Dalin; John F. Rothman
    Cover of Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and Their Daring Rescue of Young Jews From Nazis
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    Hid­den Chil­dren of the Holo­caust: Bel­gian Nuns and Their Dar­ing Res­cue of Young Jews From Nazis
    Suzanne Vromen
    Cover of Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City
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    Ghet­tostadt: Lodz and the Mak­ing of a Nazi City
    Gordon J. Horwitz
    Cover of Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
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    Who Will Write Our His­to­ry?: Emanuel Ringel­blum, the War­saw Ghet­to and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
    Samuel D. Kassow
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    Jews and Judaism in the Mid­dle Ages
    Theodore L. Steinberg
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    The YIVO Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jews in East­ern Europe
    Gershon David Hundert, ed.
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    Geog­ra­phy of Hope: Exile, The Enlight­en­ment, Disassimilation
    Pierre Birnbaum
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    Human Smoke: The Begin­nings of World War II, the End of Civilization
    Nicholson Baker
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    The Rev­o­lu­tion of 1905 and Rus­si­a’s Jews
    Stefani Hoffman and Ezra Mendelsohn, eds.
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    Sovi­et and Kosher: Jew­ish Pop­u­lar Cul­ture in the Sovi­et Union, 1923 – 1939
    Anna Shternshis
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    Why We Watched: How Anti-Semi­tism in the Allied Nations Allowed Hitler to Exter­mi­nate Euro­pean Jewry
    Theodore S. Hamerow
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    Cul­ture Front: Rep­re­sent­ing Jews in East­ern Europe
    Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran, eds.
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