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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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The Syn­a­gogue in Amer­i­ca: A Short History
Marc Lee Raphael
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Pre­cious Objects: A Sto­ry of Dia­monds, Fam­i­ly, and a Way of Life
Ali­cia Oltuski
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The Ben­der­ly Boys and Amer­i­can Jew­ish Education
Jonathan B. Krasner
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The Mak­ing of Mod­ern Israel: 1948 – 1967
Leslie Stein
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Sin­ners on Tri­al: Jews and Sac­ri­lege after the Reformation
Magda Teter
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Chil­dren Dur­ing the Holo­caust: Doc­u­ment­ing Life and Destruc­tion: Holo­caust Sources in Con­text Series
Patricia Heberer
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Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
Jeffrey Veidlinger
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The Jews of Bia­lystok Dur­ing World War II and the Holocaust
Sara Bender
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Levi­rate Mar­riage and the Fam­i­ly in Ancient Judaism
Dvora E. Weisberg
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God Inter­rupt­ed: Heresy and the Euro­pean Imag­i­na­tion Between the World Wars
Benjamin Lazier
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Eman­ci­pa­tion: How Lib­er­at­ing Europe’s Jews from the Ghet­to Led to Rev­o­lu­tion and Renaissance
Michael Goldfarb
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Invent­ing the Jew: Anti­semet­ic Stereo­types in Roman­ian and Oth­er Cen­tral-East Euro­pean Cultures
Andrei Oisteanu; Mirela Adascalitei, trans.; Moshe Idel, fwd.
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Last Days in Baby­lon: The His­to­ry of a Fam­i­ly, The Sto­ry of a Nation
Marina Benjamin
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