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    Find­ing Home and Home­land: Jew­ish Youth and Zion­ism in the After­math of the Holocaust
    Avi­noam J. Patt
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    The Mas­sacre of the Jews of Lithuania
    Karen Sutton
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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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    Jews and Mag­ic in Medici Flo­rence: The Secret World of Benedet­to Blanis
    Edward Goldberg
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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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    Chas­ing Shad­ows: A Spe­cial Agen­t’s Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assas­sin to Justice
    Fred Burton and John Bruning
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    Mur­der With­out Hatred: Esto­ni­ans and the Holocaust
    Anton Weiss-Wendt
    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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    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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    Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
    Jeffrey Veidlinger
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