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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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Prince of the Press: How One Col­lec­tor Built His­to­ry’s Most Endur­ing and Remark­able Jew­ish Library
Joshua Teplitsky
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Jew­ish Bia­lystok and Its Diaspora
Rebecca Kobrin
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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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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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Tightrope: Six Cen­turies of a Jew­ish Dynasty
Michael Karpin
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A Lucky Child: A Mem­oir of Sur­viv­ing Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Thomas Buergenthal; Elie Wiesel, fwd.
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The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Sto­ry of World War II
Denis Avey with Rob Broomby
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Kiev: Jew­ish Metrop­o­lis. A His­to­ry, 1859 – 1914
Natan M. Meir
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Ter­ri­ble Fate: Eth­nic Cleans­ing in the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Europe
Benjamin Lieberman
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One Hun­dred Great Jew­ish Books: Three Mil­len­nia of Jew­ish Conversation
Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman
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Bad Faith: A For­got­ten His­to­ry of Fam­i­ly, Father­land, and Vichy France
Carmen Callil
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Up, Up and Oy Vey!: How Jew­ish His­to­ry, Cul­ture, and Val­ues Shaped the Com­ic Book Superhero
Sim­cha Weinstein
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The Echo­ing Green: The Untold Sto­ry of Bob­by Thom­son, Ralph Bran­ca and the Shot Heard Round the World
Joshua Prager
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