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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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    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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    Four Cen­turies of Jew­ish Wom­en’s Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty: A Sourcebook
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    Norman Gershman
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    Jew­ish Pirates of the Caribbean
    Edward Kritzler
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    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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    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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    Barbara Epstein
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