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Cover of Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust
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Dar­ing to Resist: Jew­ish Defi­ance in the Holocaust
David Engel and Eva Fogelman; Yitzchak Mais, ed.
Cover of Greece: A Jewish History
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Greece: A Jew­ish History
K. E. Fleming
Cover of Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
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Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Rad­i­cal Islam
David G. Dalin; John F. Rothman
Cover of Jewish History: The Big Picture
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Jew­ish His­to­ry: The Big Picture
Gila Gevirtz
Cover of The Jews of Pinsk, 1506 to 1880
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The Jews of Pin­sk, 1506 to 1880
Mordechai Nadav; Moshe Rosman and Faigie Tropper, trans.
Cover of The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
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The Bit­ter Road to Free­dom: A New His­to­ry of the Lib­er­a­tion of Europe
William I. Hitchcock
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The Black Jews of Africa: His­to­ry, Reli­gion, Identity
Edith Bruder
Cover of Through Soviet-Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust
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Through Sovi­et-Jew­ish Eyes: Pho­tog­ra­phy, War, and the Holocaust
David Shneer
Cover of Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
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Human Smoke: The Begin­nings of World War II, the End of Civilization
Nicholson Baker
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The Rev­o­lu­tion of 1905 and Rus­si­a’s Jews
Stefani Hoffman and Ezra Mendelsohn, eds.
Cover of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939
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Sovi­et and Kosher: Jew­ish Pop­u­lar Cul­ture in the Sovi­et Union, 1923 – 1939
Anna Shternshis
Cover of Why We Watched: How Anti-Semitism in the Allied Nations Allowed Hitler to Exterminate European Jewry
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Why We Watched: How Anti-Semi­tism in the Allied Nations Allowed Hitler to Exter­mi­nate Euro­pean Jewry
Theodore S. Hamerow
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Cul­ture Front: Rep­re­sent­ing Jews in East­ern Europe
Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran, eds.
Cover of The Independent Orders of B’nai B’rith and True Sisters: Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity 1843-1914
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The Inde­pen­dent Orders of B’nai B’rith and True Sis­ters: Pio­neers of a New Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty 1843 – 1914
Cornelia Wilhelm
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Jews in Ser­vice to the Tsar
Lev Berdnikov; Nora Seligman Favorov; trans.
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Flags Over the War­saw Ghet­to: The Untold Sto­ry of the War­saw Ghet­to Uprising
Moshe Arens
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