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Four Cen­turies of Jew­ish Wom­en’s Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty: A Sourcebook
Ellen M. Umansky & Dianne Ashton, eds. and intro.
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Images in Spite of All: Four Pho­tographs from Auschwitz
Georges Didi-Huberman; Shane B. Lillis, trans.
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The Min­sk Ghet­to, 1941 – 1943: Jew­ish Resis­tance and Sovi­et Internationalism
Barbara Epstein
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Hunt­ing Eich­mann: How a Band of Sur­vivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Noto­ri­ous Nazi
Neal Bascomb
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Land­mark of the Spir­it: The Eldridge Street Synagogue
Annie Pollard; Bill Moyers, fwd.
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Iraq’s Last Jews: Sto­ries of Dai­ly Life, Upheaval, and Escape From Mod­ern Babylon
Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds.
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Domini­can Haven: The Jew­ish Refugee Set­tle­ment in Sosua, 1940 – 1945
Marion A. Kaplan
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Red Orches­tra: The Sto­ry of the Berlin Under­ground and the Cir­cle of Friends who Resist­ed Hitler
Anne Nel­son
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The Hitler Salute: On the Mean­ing of a Gesture
Tilman Allert
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The Shoah in Ukraine: His­to­ry, Tes­ti­mo­ny, Memorialization
Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower, eds.
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Yid­dish in the Cold War
Gennady Estraikh
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Besa: Mus­lims Who Saved Jews in World War II
Norman Gershman
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Jew­ish Pirates of the Caribbean
Edward Kritzler
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Jews and Shoes
Edna Nahshon
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Cha­gall and the Artists of the Russ­ian Jew­ish Theater
Susan Tumarkin Goodman, ed.
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The Rise of Israel: A His­to­ry of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary State
Jonathan Adelman
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