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Cover of A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of The Forward
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A Liv­ing Lens: Pho­tographs of Jew­ish Life from the Pages of The Forward
Alana Newhouse
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Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: A JPS Guide
Nor­man H. Finkelstein
Cover of Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
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Pow­er, Faith and Fan­ta­sy: Amer­i­ca in the Mid­dle East, 1776 to the Present
Michael B. Oren
Cover of Black Jews, Jews, and Other Heroes: How Grassroots Activism Led to the Rescue of the Ethiopian Jews
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Black Jews, Jews, and Oth­er Heroes: How Grass­roots Activism Led to the Res­cue of the Ethiopi­an Jews
Howard M. Lenhoff
Cover of Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
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Dark Hope: Work­ing for Peace in Israel and Palestine
David Shulman
Cover of Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages
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Liv­ing Togeth­er, Liv­ing Apart: Rethink­ing Jew­ish-Chris­t­ian Rela­tions in the Mid­dle Ages
Jonathan Elukin
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Jerusalem 1913: The Ori­gins of the Arab Israeli Conflict
Amy Dockser Marcus
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His­to­ry of a Tragedy: The Expul­sion of the Jews from Spain
Joseph Pérez; Lysa Hochroth, trans.; Helen Nader, intro.
Cover of The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
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The Years of Exter­mi­na­tion: Nazi Ger­many and the Jews, 1939 – 1945
Saul Friedländer
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Hen­ry Kissinger and the Amer­i­can Century
Jeremi Suri
Cover of Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19
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Krueger’s Men: The Secret Nazi Coun­ter­feit Plot and the Pris­on­ers of Block 19
Lawrence Malkin
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Chil­dren’s
Anne Frank and the Chil­dren of the Holocaust
Carol Ann Lee
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The Sephardic Fron­tier: The Recon­quista and the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty in Medieval Iberia
Jonathan Ray
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We Look Like the Ene­my: The Hid­den Sto­ry of Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands
Rachel Shabi
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Churchill’s Promised Land: Zion­ism and Statecraft
Michael Makovsky
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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Mak­ing of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East
Michael B. Oren
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