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History

Cover of The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years
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The Mufti of Jerusalem and the Nazis: The Berlin Years
Klaus Gensicke; Alexander Fraser Gunn, trans.
Cover of Jews at Home: The Domestication of Identity, Jewish Cultural Series, Volume Two
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Jews at Home: The Domes­ti­ca­tion of Iden­ti­ty, Jew­ish Cul­tur­al Series, Vol­ume Two
Simon J. Bronner, ed.
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The Ori­gins of Jew­ish Mysticism
Peter Schäfer
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My Times & Life: A His­to­ri­an’s Progress Through a Con­tentious Age
Morton Keller
Cover of Four Thousand Years of Jewish History: Then and Now
Chil­dren’s
Four Thou­sand Years of Jew­ish His­to­ry: Then and Now
Jack Lefcourt
Cover of History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage
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His­to­ry Lessons: The Cre­ation of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Heritage
Beth S. Wenger
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New Essays in Amer­i­can Jew­ish History
Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance J. Sussman, eds.
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Chil­dren’s
Archi­tects of the Holocaust
Darlene R. Stille
Cover of Twentieth Century Jews: Forging Identity in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land
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Twen­ti­eth Cen­tu­ry Jews: Forg­ing Iden­ti­ty in the Land of Promise and in the Promised Land
Monty Noam Penkower
Cover of Ottoman Brothers: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Early Twentieth-Century Palestine
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Ottoman Broth­ers: Mus­lims, Chris­tians and Jews in Ear­ly Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Palestine
Michelle U. Campos
Cover of Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation
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Rab­bis and Rev­o­lu­tion: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation
Michael Laurence Miller
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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Arabs of the Jew­ish Faith: The Civ­i­liz­ing Mis­sion in Colo­nial Algeria
Joshua Schreiers
Cover of The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845-1945
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The Col­ors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 – 1945
George Bornstein
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The Jew­ish Odyssey: An Illus­trat­ed History
Marek Halter; Charles Penwarden, trans.
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Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
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