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    Cho­sen Cap­i­tal: The Jew­ish Encounter with Amer­i­can Capitalism
    Rebecca Kobrin, ed.
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    Fran­ci’s War: A Wom­an’s Sto­ry of Survival 
    Franci Rabinek Epstein (auth.), Helen Epstein (fwd.)
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    Col­ors of Con­fine­ment: Rare Kodachrome Pho­tographs of Japan­ese Amer­i­can Incar­cer­a­tion in World War II
    Eric L. Muller, ed.; Bill Manbo, photographer
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    A Per­fect Fit: The Gar­ment Indus­try and Amer­i­can Jew­ry, 1800 – 1960
    Gabriel M. Goldstein and Elizabeth E. Greenberg, eds.
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    City of Promis­es: A His­to­ry of the Jews of New York, With a Visu­al Essay by Diana L. Linden
    Rock, Polland, Soyer, Gurock; Deborah Dash Moore, ed.
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    Pover­ty and Wel­fare among the Por­tuguese Jews of Ear­ly Mod­ern Amsterdam
    Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld
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    Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Impor­tant Lead­ers Shaped Its Destiny
    Den­nis Ross
    David Makovsky
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    The Plaza: The Secret Life of Amer­i­ca’s Most Famous Hotel
    Julie Satow
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    Colo­nial­ism and the Jews
    Ethan B Katz, Lisa Moses Leff, Maud S. Mandel (editors)
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    Her­mann Cohen and the Cri­sis of Liberalism
    Paul E. Nahme
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    Pales­tine Posts: An Eye-Wit­ness Account of the Birth of Israel
    Daniel Chertoff
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    Elvis in Vegas: How the King Rein­vent­ed the Las Vegas Show
    Richard Zoglin
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    The Adven­ture of the Pecu­liar Pro­to­cols: Adapt­ed from the Jour­nals of John H. Wat­son, MD
    Nicholas Mey­er
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    My Dear Boy: A World War II Sto­ry of Escape, Exile, and Revelation
    Joanie Holz­er Schirm
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    Rashi’s Com­men­tary on the Torah: Can­on­iza­tion and Resis­tance in the Recep­tion of a Jew­ish Classic
    Eric Lawee
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    The City Game: Tri­umph, Scan­dal, and a Leg­endary Bas­ket­ball Team
    Matthew Good­man
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