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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
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Nonfiction Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translation in Early Modern Europe Iris Idelson-Shein
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Nonfiction Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins Jacob L. Wright
Nonfiction Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939 – 1945 Isaac Bashevis Singer; David Stromberg, trans.