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Trin­i­ty of Pas­sion: The Lit­er­ary Left and the Antifas­cist Crusade
Alan M. Wald
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A His­to­ry of the Jews in the Mod­ern World
Howard M. Sachar
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The Hee­bie Jee­bies at CBGB: A Secret His­to­ry of Jew­ish Punk
Steven Lee Beeber
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The Fight for Jerusalem: Rad­i­cal Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City
Dore Gold
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Arab-Israeli Mil­i­tary Forces in an Era of Asym­met­ric Wars
Anthony H. Cordesman
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Inside the Jew­ish Bak­ery: Recipes and Mem­o­ries from the Gold­en Age of Jew­ish Baking
Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg
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About Love: Pho­tographs and Films 1973 – 2011
Anne Wilkes Tucker; Gay Block, photographer
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Jesus in the Talmud
Peter Schäfer
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Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear States and Terrorism
Peter R. Beckman; William Paul Crumlish; Michael Dobkowski; Steven Lee
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Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship
Jack Kugelmass, ed.
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The Hous­ing Divide: How Gen­er­a­tions of Immi­grants Fare in New York’s Hous­ing Market
Emily Rosenbaum; Samantha Friedman
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Rab­binic and Lay Com­mu­nal Authority
Suzanne Last Stone
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Ele­ments of Ancient Jew­ish Nationalism
David Goodblatt
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Bro­ken Threads: The Destruc­tion of the Jew­ish Fash­ion Indus­try in Ger­many and Austria
Roberta S. Kremer
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Music in Jew­ish His­to­ry and Culture
Emanuel Rubin; John H. Baron
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The Jews of Khaz­aria, 2nd Edition
Kevin Alan Brook
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