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    History

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    City of Oranges: An Inti­mate His­to­ry of Arabs and Jews in Jaffa
    Adam LeBor
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    His­tor­i­cal Fig­ure Fixation

    Lavie Tid­har​’s most recent nov­el is Osama (PS Pub­lish­ing). He will be blog­ging all week for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing.I might be obsessed with…
    Lavie Tid­har
    December 12, 2011
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    Lab­o­ra­to­ry for World Destruc­tion: Ger­mans and Jews in Cen­tral Europe
    Robert S. Wistrich
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    The Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty of Saloni­ka: His­to­ry, Mem­o­ry, Identity
    Bea Lewkowicz
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    Wit­ness
    Ruth Gruber; Richard Holbrooke, fwd.
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    A Guest in My Own Coun­try: A Hun­gar­i­an Life
    George Konrad; Jim Tucker, trans.; Michael Henry Heim, ed.
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    Fiorel­lo’s Sis­ter: Gem­ma Laguardia Gluck­’s Story
    Rochelle G. Saidel, ed.
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    The Zookeep­er’s Wife: A War Story
    Diane Ack­er­man
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    Churchill and the Jews: A Life­long Friendship
    Martin Gilbert
    Cover of Contesting Histories: German and Jewish Americans and the Legacy of the Holocaust
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    Con­test­ing His­to­ries: Ger­man and Jew­ish Amer­i­cans and the Lega­cy of the Holocaust
    Michael Schuldiner
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    An Island Called Home: Return­ing to Jew­ish Cuba
    Ruth Behar
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    At The Edge of a Dream: The Sto­ry of Jew­ish Immi­grants on New York’s Low­er East Side: 1880 – 1920
    Lawrence J. Epstein
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    Local His­to­ry, Transna­tion­al Mem­o­ry in the Roman­ian Holocaust
    Valentina Glajar and Jeanine Teodorescu, eds.
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    An Amer­i­can in Hitler’s Berlin: Abra­ham Plotk­in’s Diary, 1932 – 33
    Catherine Collomp and Bruno Groppo, eds. and intro.
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    Amer­i­can Nat­u­ral­ism and the Jews: Gar­land, Nor­ris, Dreis­er, Whar­ton, and Cather
    Donald Pizer
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