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    The Black Jews of Africa: His­to­ry, Reli­gion, Identity
    Edith Bruder
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    David Kushner
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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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    The Col­ors of Jews: Racial Pol­i­tics and Rad­i­cal Diasporism
    Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
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    The Price of White­ness: Jews, Race, and Amer­i­can Identity
    Eric Goldstein
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    As Good As Any­body: Mar­tin Luther King Jr. and Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel’s Amaz­ing March Toward Freedom
    Richard Michel­son
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    Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
    Rebecca T. Alpert
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    Trou­bling the Waters: Black-Jew­ish Rela­tions in the Amer­i­can Century
    Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
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    Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews and the 1991 Brook­lyn Riot
    Edward S. Shapiro
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    How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America
    Karen Brodkin
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    Hot Pur­suit: Mur­der in Mississippi
    Stacia Deutsch; Craig Orback, illus.
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    An Unspeak­able Crime: The Pros­e­cu­tion and Per­se­cu­tion of Leo Frank
    Elaine Alphin
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    Mixed Match­es: How to Cre­ate Suc­cess­ful Inter­ra­cial, Intereth­nic, and Inter­faith Relationships
    Joel Crohn
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    Puri­fy­ing The Nation: Pop­u­la­tion Exchange and Eth­nic Cleans­ing in Nazi-Allied Romania
    Vladimir SOlonari
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    Jack­ie’s Gift: A True Sto­ry of Christ­mas, Hanukkah, and Jack­ie Robinson
    Sharon Robinson; E.B. Lewis, illus.
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