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    Cover of The Secret War With Iran: The Clandestine Struggle Against Israel and the West
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    The Secret War With Iran: The Clan­des­tine Strug­gle Against Israel and the West
    Ronen Bergman
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    Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
    Mark Mazower
    Cover of The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
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    The Bagel: The Sur­pris­ing His­to­ry of a Mod­est Bread
    Maria Balinska
    Cover of Hebrew Writing of the First World War
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    Hebrew Writ­ing of the First World War
    Glenda Abramson
    Cover of The Oral Law of Sinai: An Illustrated History of the Mishnah
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    The Oral Law of Sinai: An Illus­trat­ed His­to­ry of the Mishnah
    Rabbi Berel Wein
    Cover of Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
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    Make ​‘em Laugh: The Fun­ny Busi­ness of America
    Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor
    Cover of Voices From Shanghai: Jewish Exiles in Wartime China
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    Voic­es From Shang­hai: Jew­ish Exiles in Wartime China
    Irene Eber, ed., trans., and intro.
    Cover of Life and Death in the Third Reich
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    Life and Death in the Third Reich
    Peter Fritzsche
    Cover of War on the Margins
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    War on the Margins
    Libby Cone
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    Hitler, the Ger­mans, and the Final Solution
    Ian Kershaw
    Cover of Jewish Migration
    Chil­dren’s
    Jew­ish Migration
    John Bliss; Jeff Edwards, illus.
    Cover of For Decades I Was Silent: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith
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    For Decades I Was Silent: A Holo­caust Sur­vivor’s Jour­ney Back to Faith
    Baruch G. Goldstein
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    Ire­na Sendler and the Chil­dren of the War­saw Ghetto
    Susan Rubin Goldman; Bill Farnsworth, illus.
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    Jew­ish Per­spec­tives on Hel­lenis­tic Rulers
    Tessa Rajak, Sarah Pearce, James Aitken, and Jennifer Dines, eds.
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    Lili Mar­lene: The Sol­diers’ Song of World War II
    Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller
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    Cre­ation of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East: Israel
    Louise Chipley Slavicek; Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., ed.
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