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Ura­ni­um Wars: The Sci­en­tif­ic Rival­ry That Cre­at­ed The Nuclear Age
Amir D. Aczel
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Jerusalem: City of Longing
Simon Goldhill
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A Heart Afire: Sto­ries and Teach­ing of the Ear­ly Hasidic Masters
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles- Yepez; Arthur Green, fwd.
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Major Far­ran’s Hat: The Untold Sto­ry of the Strug­gle to Estab­lish the Jew­ish State
David Cesarani
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The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
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Hitler’s Intel­li­gence Chief: Wal­ter Shel­len­berg: The Man Who Kept Ger­many’s Secrets
Reinhard R. Dorries
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Screen­ing a Lynch­ing: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
Matthew H. Bernstein
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The Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um Ency­clo­pe­dia of Camps and Ghet­tos, 1933 – 1945, Vol­ume 1
Geoffrey P. Megargee, ed.
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From Empa­thy to Denial: Arab Respons­es to the Holocaust
Meir Litvak and Esther Webman
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Nit­zotz: The Spark of Resis­tance of Kovno Ghet­to and Dachau-Kaufer­ing Con­cen­tra­tion Camp
Laura Weinrib, ed. and intro; Estee Weinrib, trans.
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The Yad Vashem Ency­clo­pe­dia of the Ghet­tos Dur­ing the Holocaust
Guy Miren, ed.
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Hag­gadah for the Fifth Child: A Fes­tive Dis­cus­sion on the Exo­dus and History
Donald B. Susswein
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Oper­a­tion Exo­dus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land, A Per­ilous Jour­ney that Shaped Israel’s Fate
Gordon Thomas
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Nazi Pro­pa­gan­da for the Arab World
Jeffrey Herf
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A Child Al Con­fi­no: The True Sto­ry of a Jew­ish Boy and His Moth­er in Mus­solin­i’s Italy
Eric Lamet
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Lit­er­ary Pass­ports: The Mak­ing of Mod­ernist Hebrew Fic­tion in Europe
Shachar M. Pinsker
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