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    A Safe Haven: Har­ry Tru­man and the Found­ing of Israel
    Allis Radosh; Ronald Radosh
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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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    The Oth­er With­in: the Mar­ra­nos: Split Iden­ti­ty and Emerg­ing Modernity
    Yirmayahu Yovel
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    Flight From the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933 – 1946
    Debórah Dwork, Robert Jan Van Pelt
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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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    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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