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    Chil­dren’s
    Israel and Palestine
    Paul Mason
    Essay

    Today I Am a Woman

    Shu­lamit Rein­harz and Bar­bara Vinick are the edi­tors of the recent­ly pub­lished Today I Am a Woman: Sto­ries of Bat Mitz­vah around the World. They will be…
    Bar­bara Vinick, Shu­lamit Reinharz
    January 9, 2012
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    Lives of Hitler’s Jew­ish Sol­diers: Untold Tales of Men of Jew­ish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich
    Bryan Mark Rigg
    Cover of The Parting of the Sea: How Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plagues Shaped the Story of Exodus
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    The Part­ing of the Sea: How Vol­ca­noes, Earth­quakes, and Plagues Shaped the Sto­ry of Exodus
    Barbara J. Sivertsen
    Cover of Cartoons and Extremism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and Western Media
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    Car­toons and Extrem­ism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and West­ern Media
    Joel Kotek
    Cover of A Safe Haven: Harry Truman and the Founding of Israel
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    A Safe Haven: Har­ry Tru­man and the Found­ing of Israel
    Allis Radosh; Ronald Radosh
    Cover of The Other Within: the Marranos: Split Identity and Emerging Modernity
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    The Oth­er With­in: the Mar­ra­nos: Split Iden­ti­ty and Emerg­ing Modernity
    Yirmayahu Yovel
    Cover of Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb
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    Levit­town: Two Fam­i­lies, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civ­il Rights in Amer­i­ca’s Leg­endary Suburb
    David Kushner
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    Flight From the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933 – 1946
    Debórah Dwork, Robert Jan Van Pelt
    Cover of Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns That Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews
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    Tri­umph Over Tyran­ny: The Hero­ic Cam­paigns That Saved 2,000,000 Sovi­et Jews
    Philip Spiegel; Natan Sharansky, fwd.
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    Haunt­ed City: Nurem­berg and the Nazi Past
    Neil Gregor
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    Trop­i­cal Zion: Gen­er­al Tru­jil­lo FDR, and the Jews of Sosua
    Allen Wells
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    Dig­ging Through the Bible: Under­stand­ing Bib­li­cal Peo­ple, Places, and Con­tro­ver­sies Through Archaeology
    Richard A. Freund
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    The Aryan Jesus: Chris­t­ian The­olo­gians and the Bible in Nazi Germany
    Susannah Heschel
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    The Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Roots of Mod­ern Yid­dish 1903 – 1917
    Barry Trachtenberg
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    Anti-Semi­tism: A His­to­ry and Psy­cho­analy­sis of Con­tem­po­rary Hatred
    Avner Falk
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