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The Mas­sacre of the Jews of Lithuania
Karen Sutton
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Jews and Mag­ic in Medici Flo­rence: The Secret World of Benedet­to Blanis
Edward Goldberg
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Beyond the Façade: A Syn­a­gogue, A Restora­tion, A Legacy
Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
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In the Gar­den of Beasts: Love, Ter­ror, and an Amer­i­can Fam­i­ly in Hitler’s Berlin
Erik Larson
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Mur­der With­out Hatred: Esto­ni­ans and the Holocaust
Anton Weiss-Wendt
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Chas­ing Shad­ows: A Spe­cial Agen­t’s Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assas­sin to Justice
Fred Burton and John Bruning
Cover of On Chariots with Horses of Fire and Iron: The Excursionists and the Narrow Gauge Railroad From Jaffa to Jerusalem
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On Char­i­ots with Hors­es of Fire and Iron: The Excur­sion­ists and the Nar­row Gauge Rail­road From Jaf­fa to Jerusalem
Anthony S. Travis
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Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Anti­semitism: A History
Albert S. Lindemann and Richard S. Levy, eds.
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Gretel’s Sto­ry: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis
Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan
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The Long Night: William L. Shir­er and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Steve Wick
Cover of The Lemberg Mosaic: The Memoirs of Two Who Survived the Destruction of Jewish Galicia
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The Lem­berg Mosa­ic: The Mem­oirs of Two Who Sur­vived the Destruc­tion of Jew­ish Galicia
Jakob Weiss
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How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III
Ron Rosenbaum
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The Women Who Recon­struct­ed Amer­i­can Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion, 1910 – 1965
Carol K. Ingall, ed.
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A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kind­ness– and a Trove of Let­ters– Revealed the Hid­den His­to­ry of the Great Depression
Ted Gup
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Ein­stein Before Israel: Zion­ist Icon or Iconoclast?
Ze’ev Rosenkranz
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