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Cover of Landmark of the Spirit: The Eldridge Street Synagogue
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Land­mark of the Spir­it: The Eldridge Street Synagogue
Annie Pollard; Bill Moyers, fwd.
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Iraq’s Last Jews: Sto­ries of Dai­ly Life, Upheaval, and Escape From Mod­ern Babylon
Tamar Morad, Dennis Shasha, and Robert Shasha, eds.
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The Rise of Israel: A His­to­ry of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary State
Jonathan Adelman
Cover of Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel
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Did God Have a Wife? Archae­ol­o­gy and Folk Reli­gion in Ancient Israel
William G. Dever
Cover of Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life, History, Politics, and Culture
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Jew­ish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life, His­to­ry, Pol­i­tics, and Culture
Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds,; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.
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The Secret War With Iran: The Clan­des­tine Strug­gle Against Israel and the West
Ronen Bergman
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The Tem­ple of Jerusalem: Past, Present, and Future
John M, Lundquist
Cover of Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret
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Hitler’s For­eign Exe­cu­tion­ers: Europe’s Dirty Secret
Christopher Hale
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Visu­al Arts
Cha­gall and the Artists of the Russ­ian Jew­ish Theater
Susan Tumarkin Goodman, ed.
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Hitler, the Ger­mans, and the Final Solution
Ian Kershaw
Cover of Jewish Migration
Chil­dren’s
Jew­ish Migration
John Bliss; Jeff Edwards, illus.
Cover of For Decades I Was Silent: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith
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For Decades I Was Silent: A Holo­caust Sur­vivor’s Jour­ney Back to Faith
Baruch G. Goldstein
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Chil­dren’s
Ire­na Sendler and the Chil­dren of the War­saw Ghetto
Susan Rubin Goldman; Bill Farnsworth, illus.
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Jew­ish Per­spec­tives on Hel­lenis­tic Rulers
Tessa Rajak, Sarah Pearce, James Aitken, and Jennifer Dines, eds.
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Lili Mar­lene: The Sol­diers’ Song of World War II
Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller
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Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Mark Mazower
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