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From Joshua to Caiaphas High Priests After the Exile
James C. Vanderkam
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In Har­ness: Yid­dish Writ­ers’ Romance With Communism
Gennady Estraikh
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A Brief His­to­ry of the Jew­ish People
Moshe Weiss
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Gen­der and Jew­ish Dif­fer­ence From Paul to Shakespeare
Lisa Lampert
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The Exe­cu­tion of the Hang­man of Riga: The Only Exe­cu­tion of a Nazi War Crim­i­nal by the Mossad
Anton Kuenzle; Gad Shimron; Uriel Masad, trans.
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The Provin­cials: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of Jews in the South
Eli N. Evans
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Haunt­ed in the New World: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Cul­ture From Cahan to the Goldbergs
Donald Weber
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Jew­ish Girls Com­ing of Age in Amer­i­ca 1860 – 1920
Melissa R. Klapper
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Ladies and Gen­tle­men, The Bronx is Burn­ing: 1977, Base­ball, Pol­i­tics and the Bat­tle for the Soul of the City
Jonathan Mahler
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How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
Danny Goldberg
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Liv­ing Through World War II
Andrew Langley
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Chil­dren’s
Jerusalem Sky: Stars, Cross­es, and Crescents
Mark Pod­w­al
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The Birth of Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Dis­ci­ples and the Cre­ation of an Amer­i­can Reli­gious Movement
Michael R. Cohen
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Under­stand the Uncon­scious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vien­na 1900 to the Present
Eric R. Kandel
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On Wings of Eagles: The Secret Oper­a­tion of the Ethiopi­an Exodus
Micha Feldmann
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Princess or Pris­on­er?: Jew­ish Women in Jerusalem, 1840 – 1914
Margalit Shilo
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