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    Rush: Rev­o­lu­tion, Mad­ness, and Ben­jamin Rush, the Vision­ary Doc­tor Who Became a Found­ing Father
    Stephen Fried
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    The Last Palace: Europe’s Tur­bu­lent Cen­tu­ry Through Five Lives and One House
    Nor­man Eisen
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    Let­ters to My Pales­tin­ian Neighbor
    Yos­si Klein Halevi
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    Chil­dren of Nazis: The Sons and Daugh­ters of Himm­ler, Göring, Höss, Men­gele, and Oth­ers— Liv­ing with a Father’s Mon­strous Legacy
    Tania Cras­ni­an­s­ki
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    The Joe Shus­ter Sto­ry: The Artist Behind Superman
    Julian Voloj
    Thomas Campi
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    The Stakes of His­to­ry: On the Use and Abuse of Jew­ish His­to­ry for Life
    David N. Myers
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    Hasidism: A New History
    David Biale et al
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    Wern­er Scholem: A Ger­man Life (Jew­ish Cul­ture and Contexts)
    Mirjam Zadoff; Dona Geyer, trans.
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    Sewing the Fab­ric of State­hood: Gar­ment Unions, Amer­i­can Labor, and the Estab­lish­ment of the State of Israel
    Adam M. Howard
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    Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History
    Steven J. Zipperstein
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    On Jews and Communism

    Steven J. Zipperstein
    April 6, 2018
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    The Telling Image: Shapes of Chang­ing Times
    Lois Far­fel Stark
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    The Cho­sen Wars: How Judaism Became an Amer­i­can Religion
    Steven R. Weisman
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    Touch­ing on Place: Archi­tec­tur­al Ele­ments in Israel
    Chaim Beza­lel
    Yon­nah Ben Levy
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    Red Hot Mama: The Life of Sophie Tucker
    Lau­ren Rebec­ca Sklaroff
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    Sav­ing Mona Lisa: The Bat­tle to Pro­tect the Lou­vre and its Trea­sures from the Nazis
    Ger­ri Chanel
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