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    Dark Hope: Work­ing for Peace in Israel and Palestine
    David Shulman
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    Hen­ry Kissinger and the Amer­i­can Century
    Jeremi Suri
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    Krueger’s Men: The Secret Nazi Coun­ter­feit Plot and the Pris­on­ers of Block 19
    Lawrence Malkin
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    Anne Frank and the Chil­dren of the Holocaust
    Carol Ann Lee
    Cover of The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia
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    The Sephardic Fron­tier: The Recon­quista and the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty in Medieval Iberia
    Jonathan Ray
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    Churchill’s Promised Land: Zion­ism and Statecraft
    Michael Makovsky
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    We Look Like the Ene­my: The Hid­den Sto­ry of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands
    Rachel Shabi
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    The Chang­ing Face of Anti-Semi­tism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day
    Walter Laqueur
    Cover of Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and Postwar Families in Holland
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    Beyond Anne Frank: Hid­den Chil­dren and Post­war Fam­i­lies in Holland
    Diane L. Wolf
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    Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Mak­ing of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East
    Michael B. Oren
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    Chil­dren of the Holocaust
    Stephanie Fitzgerald
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    Abra­ham: A Jour­ney to the Heart of Three Faiths
    Bruce Feiler
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    Broth­ers at War: Israel and the Tragedy of the Altalena
    Jerold S. Auerbach
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    One Hun­dred Years of Kib­butz Life
    Michal Palgi and Shulamit Reinharz, eds..
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    When Courage Pre­vailed: The Res­cue and Sur­vival of Jews in the Inde­pen­dent State of Croa­t­ia 1941 – 1945
    Esther Gitman
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    The Per­fect Nazi: Uncov­er­ing My Grandfather’s Secret Past
    Martin Davidson
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