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    Leon Trot­sky: A Rev­o­lu­tion­ary’s Life
    Joshua Rubenstein
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    Jews in Amer­i­ca’s West

    Yes­ter­day, Anna Solomon wrote for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil and MyJew­ish­Learn­ing about a grand­moth­er’s secrets. Her nov­el, The Lit­tle Bride, is now available.I…
    Anna Solomon
    November 22, 2011
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    Yid­dishkeit: Jew­ish Ver­nac­u­lar and the New Land
    Harvey Pekar & Paul Buhle, eds.
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    Sophie Scholl and the White Rose
    Annette Dumbach and Jud Newborn
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    Jews and Base­ball: Vol­ume 1, Enter­ing the Amer­i­can Main­stream, 1871 – 1948
    Burton A. Boxerman and Benita W. Boxerman; Martin Abramowitz, fwd.
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    This Has Hap­pened: An Ital­ian Fam­i­ly in Auschwitz
    Piera Sonnino
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    Jews and Power
    Ruth R. Wisse
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    Res­ur­rect­ing Hebrew
    Ilan Sta­vans
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    His­to­ry of a Tragedy: The Expul­sion of the Jews from Spain
    Joseph Pérez; Lysa Hochroth, trans.; Helen Nader, intro.
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    The Years of Exter­mi­na­tion: Nazi Ger­many and the Jews, 1939 – 1945
    Saul Friedländer
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    A Liv­ing Lens: Pho­tographs of Jew­ish Life from the Pages of The Forward
    Alana Newhouse
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: A JPS Guide
    Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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    Pow­er, Faith and Fan­ta­sy: Amer­i­ca in the Mid­dle East, 1776 to the Present
    Michael B. Oren
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    Black Jews, Jews, and Oth­er Heroes: How Grass­roots Activism Led to the Res­cue of the Ethiopi­an Jews
    Howard M. Lenhoff
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    Dark Hope: Work­ing for Peace in Israel and Palestine
    David Shulman
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    Liv­ing Togeth­er, Liv­ing Apart: Rethink­ing Jew­ish-Chris­t­ian Rela­tions in the Mid­dle Ages
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