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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
    Cover of Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II
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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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    Images in Spite of All: Four Pho­tographs from Auschwitz
    Georges Didi-Huberman; Shane B. Lillis, trans.
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    Cha­gall and the Artists of the Russ­ian Jew­ish Theater
    Susan Tumarkin Goodman, ed.
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    Did God Have a Wife? Archae­ol­o­gy and Folk Reli­gion in Ancient Israel
    William G. Dever
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    The Rise of Israel: A His­to­ry of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary State
    Jonathan Adelman
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    Jew­ish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life, His­to­ry, Pol­i­tics, and Culture
    Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds,; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.
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    The Secret War With Iran: The Clan­des­tine Strug­gle Against Israel and the West
    Ronen Bergman
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    The Tem­ple of Jerusalem: Past, Present, and Future
    John M, Lundquist
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