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    SLIMED! An Oral His­to­ry of Nick­elodeon’s Gold­en Age
    Math­ew Klickstein
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    Jew­ish Spain: A Mediter­ranean Memory
    Tabea Alexa Linhard
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    The Geo­graph­i­cal Ency­clo­pe­dia of the Holo­caust in Hungary
    Randolph L. Braham, ed.
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    The Lega­cy: Teach­ings for Life from the Great Lithuan­ian Rabbis
    Berel Wein & Warren Goldstein
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    Unclean Lips: Jews, Obscen­i­ty, and Amer­i­can Culture
    Josh Lambert
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    Lithuan­ian Yeshiv­as of the Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry: Cre­at­ing a Tra­di­tion of Learning
    Shaul Stampfer; Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, trans.
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    Hatemail: Anti-Semi­tism on Pic­ture Postcards
    Salo Aizenberg; Michael Berenbaum, fwd.
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    1929: Map­ping the Jew­ish World
    Hasia R. Diner and Gennady Estraikh, eds.
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    Jew­ish Poland Revis­it­ed: Her­itage Tourism in Unqui­et Places
    Erica T. Lehrer
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    Con­test­ed Land, Con­test­ed Mem­o­ry: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
    Jo Roberts
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    Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
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    What’s New About Hanukkah?

    Dianne Ash­ton is pro­fes­sor of reli­gion stud­ies and the for­mer direc­tor of Amer­i­can stud­ies at Rowan Uni­ver­si­ty. Her most recent book, Hanukkah in Amer­i­ca:…
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    Hanukkah in Amer­i­ca: A History
    Dianne Ash­ton
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    The Vil­lage
    John Straus­baugh
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    Andreas Nachama, Julius H. Schoeps, and Hermann Simon
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