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    Cover of Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics
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    Inquisi­to­r­i­al Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Oth­er Heretics
    Richard L. Kagan; Abigail Dyer, eds. and trans.
    Cover of Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair of 1840
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    Blood Libel: The Dam­as­cus Affair of 1840
    Ronald Florence
    Cover of The Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel
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    The Dias­po­ra and the Lost Tribes of Israel
    Amotz Asa-El
    Cover of Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity
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    Bor­der Lines: The Par­ti­tion of Judaeo-Christianity
    Daniel Boyarin
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    Out of the Shtetl: Mak­ing Jews Mod­ern in the Pol­ish Borderlands
    Nan­cy Sinkoff
    Cover of The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-1945
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    The Yel­low Star: The Per­se­cu­tion of the Jews in Europe 1933 – 1945
    Gerhard Schoenberner
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    Syn­a­gogue Song: An Intro­duc­tion To Con­cepts, The­o­ries, and Customs
    Jonathan L. Friedman
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    Fac­ing the Glass Booth
    Haim Gouri
    Cover of Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940
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    Edouard Vuil­lard: A Painter and His Mus­es, 1890 – 1940
    Stephen Brown, with an essay by Richard R. Brettell
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    The Mau­thausen Tri­al: Amer­i­can Mil­i­tary Jus­tice in Germany
    Tomaz Jardim
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    The Jews of the Unit­ed States: 1654 to 2000
    Hasia R. Diner
    Cover of Don't Wave Goodbye: The Children's Flight From Nazi Persecution to American Freedom
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    Don’t Wave Good­bye: The Chil­dren’s Flight From Nazi Per­se­cu­tion to Amer­i­can Freedom
    Philip K. Jason; Iris Posner, eds.
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    From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jew­ish Life in America
    Michael Grunberger, ed.
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    The Ran­som of the Jews: The Sto­ry of the Extra­or­di­nary Secret Bar­gain Between Roma­nia and Israel
    Radu Ioanid
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    The Plot: The Secret Sto­ry of the Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion
    Will Eisner; Umberto Eco, into.
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    A Sense of the Mys­te­ri­ous: Sci­ence and the Human Spirit
    Alan Light­man
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