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Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture in Amer­i­ca: 1870 – 2000
Emanuel S. Goldsmith; Barnett Zumoff, trans.
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Cos­mopoli­tans: A Social & Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of the Jews of the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area
Fred Rosenbaum
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97 Orchard: An Edi­ble His­to­ry of Five Immi­grant Fam­i­lies in One New York Tenement
Jane Ziegelman
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The Oth­er Schindlers: Why Some Peo­ple Chose To Save The Jews In The Holocaust
Agnes Grunwald-Spier; Sir Martin Gilberg, fwd.
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We Are Com­ing Unafraid: The Jew­ish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War
Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren , 2010. 200 pp. $39.95 ISBN: 978-7425- 5274-6
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The Envoy: The Epic Res­cue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desparate Clos­ing Months of World War II
Alex Kershaw
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Reassess­ing Jew­ish Life in Medieval Europe
Robert Chazan
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Scor­pi­ons: The Bat­tles and the Tri­umphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices
Noah Feldman
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Sex­u­al Vio­lence Against Jew­ish Women Dur­ing The Holocaust
Sonia M. Hedgepeth and Rochelle G. Saidel, eds.
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Sacred Trea­sure — The Cairo Genizah: The Amaz­ing Dis­cov­er­ies of For­got­ten Jew­ish His­to­ry in an Egypt­ian Syn­a­gogue Attic
Rabbi Mark Glickman
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Puri­fy­ing The Nation: Pop­u­la­tion Exchange and Eth­nic Cleans­ing in Nazi-Allied Romania
Vladimir SOlonari
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Pales­tin­ian and Israeli Pub­lic Opin­ion: The Pub­lic Imper­a­tive In The Sec­ond Intifada
Jacob Shamir & Khalil Shikaki
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Jew­ish Life in Nazi Ger­many: Dilem­mas and Responses
Francis R. Nicosia and David Scrase, eds.
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Life in a Jar: The Ire­na Sendler Project
Jack Mayer
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Kings and Car­pen­ters: One Hun­dred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Planned
Laurie Coulter; Martha Newbigging, illus.
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Ash­es in the Wind: The Destruc­tion of Dutch Jewry
Dr. Jacob Presser
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