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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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Anti-Semi­tism: A His­to­ry and Psy­cho­analy­sis of Con­tem­po­rary Hatred
Avner Falk
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And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of our Vinyl
Roger Bennett and Josh Kun
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Anti­semet­ic Myths: A His­tor­i­cal and Con­tem­po­rary Anthology
Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer, eds.
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Ted­dy Kollek: The Man, His Times, and His Jerusalem
Ruth Bachi-Kolodny; Dr. Amy Avgar, trans.
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Build­ing After Auschwitz: Jew­ish Archi­tec­ture and the Mem­o­ry of the Holocaust
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
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Jews and Booze: Becom­ing Amer­i­can in the Age of Prohibition
Marni Davis
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The Sev­en Lives of Colonel Pat­ter­son: How an Irish Lion Hunter Led the Jew­ish Legion to Victory
Denis Brian
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Augus­tine and the Jews: A Chris­t­ian Defense of Jews and Judaism
Paula Fredriksen
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Prince of the Press: How One Col­lec­tor Built His­to­ry’s Most Endur­ing and Remark­able Jew­ish Library
Joshua Teplitsky
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Anti-Jew­ish Vio­lence: Rethink­ing the Pogrom in East Euro­pean History
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir and Israel Bartal, eds.
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Jew­ish Bia­lystok and Its Diaspora
Rebecca Kobrin
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Philosemitism in History
Jonathan Karp and Adam Sutcliffe, eds.
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My Ger­many: A Jew­ish Writer Returns to the World His Par­ents Escaped
Lev Raphael
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