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    Cover of The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880
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    The Jews of Pin­sk, 1506 to 1880
    Mordechai Nadav; Moshe Rosman and Faigie Tropper, trans.
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    The Bit­ter Road to Free­dom: A New His­to­ry of the Lib­er­a­tion of Europe
    William I. Hitchcock
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    The Black Jews of Africa: His­to­ry, Reli­gion, Identity
    Edith Bruder
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    Through Sovi­et-Jew­ish Eyes: Pho­tog­ra­phy, War, and the Holocaust
    David Shneer
    Cover of The Independent Orders of B’nai B’rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity 1843-1914
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    The Inde­pen­dent Orders of B’nai B’rith and True Sis­ters: Pio­neers of a New Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty 1843 – 1914
    Cornelia Wilhelm
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    Jews in Ser­vice to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov; Nora Seligman Favorov; trans.
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    Flags Over the War­saw Ghet­to: The Untold Sto­ry of the War­saw Ghet­to Uprising
    Moshe Arens
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    Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Hench­men Fled Justice
    Gerald Steinacher
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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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    The Sis­tine Secrets: Michelan­gelo’s For­bid­den Mes­sages in the Heart of the Vatican
    Benjamin Blech; Roy Doliner
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    Cre­at­ed Equal: How the Bible Broke with Ancient Polit­i­cal Thought
    Joshua A. Berman
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    Inno­cent Abroad: An Inti­mate His­to­ry of Amer­i­can Peace Diplo­ma­cy in the Mid­dle East
    Martin Indyk
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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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    Gennady Estraikh
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