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    Renais­sance Revealed: The Oppres­sion of Jews in Italy in the 1500s

    Cather­ine Fletcher
    September 14, 2020
    Cover of The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice
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    The Jew­ish Ghet­to and the Visu­al Imag­i­na­tion of Ear­ly Mod­ern Venice
    Dana E. Katz
    Cover of The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture
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    The War­saw Ghet­to in Amer­i­can Art and Culture
    Saman­tha Baskind
    Cover of Mister Doctor: Janusz Korczak & the Orphans of the Warsaw Ghetto
    Chil­dren’s
    Mis­ter Doc­tor: Janusz Kor­czak & the Orphans of the War­saw Ghetto
    Irene Cohen-Janca Maurizio Quarello, illus.
    Cover of Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
    Non­fic­tion
    Rywka’s Diary: The Writ­ings of a Jew­ish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
    Rywka Lipszyc and Anita Friedman
    Cover of Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943
    Non­fic­tion
    Assim­i­lat­ed Jews in the War­saw Ghet­to, 1940 – 1943
    Katarzyna Person
    Cover of The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
    Non­fic­tion
    The Clan­des­tine His­to­ry of the Kovno Jew­ish Ghet­to Police
    Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
    Cover of Berlin Ghetto: Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance
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    Berlin Ghet­to: Her­bert Baum and the Anti-Fas­cist Resistance
    Eric Brothers; Elie Wiesel, fwd.
    Cover of With a Yellow Star and a Red Cross: A Doctor in the Lodz Ghetto
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    With a Yel­low Star and a Red Cross: A Doc­tor in the Lodz Ghetto
    Arnold Mostowicz; Antony Polonsky, fwd.; Henia and Nochem Reinhartz, trans.
    Cover of Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto
    Chil­dren’s
    Requiem: Poems of the Terezin Ghetto
    Paul B. Janeczko
    Cover of Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City
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    Ghet­tostadt: Lodz and the Mak­ing of a Nazi City
    Gordon J. Horwitz
    Cover of Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
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    Who Will Write Our His­to­ry?: Emanuel Ringel­blum, the War­saw Ghet­to and the Oyneg Shabes Archive
    Samuel D. Kassow
    Cover of Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto: The Untold Story of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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    Flags Over the War­saw Ghet­to: The Untold Sto­ry of the War­saw Ghet­to Uprising
    Moshe Arens
    Cover of The Minsk Ghetto, 1941-1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism
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    The Min­sk Ghet­to, 1941 – 1943: Jew­ish Resis­tance and Sovi­et Internationalism
    Barbara Epstein
    Cover of Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto
    Chil­dren’s
    Ire­na Sendler and the Chil­dren of the War­saw Ghetto
    Susan Rubin Goldman; Bill Farnsworth, illus.
    Cover of Music in the Holocaust: Confronting Life in the Nazi Ghettos and Camps
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    Music in the Holo­caust: Con­fronting Life in the Nazi Ghet­tos and Camps
    Shirli Gilbert
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