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Ashkenazi Jewry

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The Rise of the Mod­ern Yid­dish Theater
Alyssa Quint
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Fic­tion
The Nice Lit­tle Blonde Girl: A Lily Kovn­er Jew­ish Miss Marple Novel
Lin­da Frank
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Cer­e­mo­ni­al Syn­a­gogue Textiles
Bracha Yaniv
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Cook­book
Jew­ish Food: The World at Table
Matthew Good­man
Cover of The Rest of Us: The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews
Non­fic­tion
The Rest of Us: The Rise of Amer­i­ca’s East­ern Euro­pean Jews
Stephen Birmingham
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Non­fic­tion
The YIVO Ency­clo­pe­dia of Jews in East­ern Europe
Gershon David Hundert, ed.
Cover of Culture Front: Representing Jews in Eastern Europe
Non­fic­tion
Cul­ture Front: Rep­re­sent­ing Jews in East­ern Europe
Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran, eds.
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Non­fic­tion
Anti-Jew­ish Vio­lence: Rethink­ing the Pogrom in East Euro­pean History
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, David Gaunt, Natan M. Meir and Israel Bartal, eds.
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Kiev: Jew­ish Metrop­o­lis. A His­to­ry, 1859 – 1914
Natan M. Meir
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Fic­tion
Folk­tales of the Jews, Vol­ume 2: Tales from East­ern Europe
Dan Ben-Amos, ed.; Dov Noy, consulting ed.; Ellen Frankel, series ed.
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Non­fic­tion
The Jews of East­ern Europe, 1772 – 1881
Israel Bartal; Chaya Naor, trans.
Cover of My Future is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants
Non­fic­tion
My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
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Insid­ers and Out­siders: Dilem­mas of East Euro­pean Jewry
Richard I. Cohen, Jonathan Frankel and Stefani Hoffman, eds.
Cover of Families, Rabbis, and Education: Traditional Jewish Society in Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe
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Fam­i­lies, Rab­bis, and Edu­ca­tion: Tra­di­tion­al Jew­ish Soci­ety in Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry East­ern Europe
Shaul Stampfer
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Recon­struct­ing Ashke­naz: The Human Face of Fran­co-Ger­man Jew­ry, 1000 – 1250
David Malkiel
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