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    Kings and Car­pen­ters: One Hun­dred Bible Land Jobs You Might Have Praised or Planned
    Laurie Coulter; Martha Newbigging, illus.
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    Ash­es in the Wind: The Destruc­tion of Dutch Jewry
    Dr. Jacob Presser
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    Crown of Alep­po: The Mys­tery of the Old­est Hebrew Bible Codex
    Hayim Tawil and Bernard Schneider
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    Peace in the Mak­ing: The Men­achem Begin-Anwar El-Sadat Per­son­al Correspondence
    Harry Hurwitz and Yisrael Medad, ed.
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    The Wit­ness House: Nazis and Holo­caust Sur­vivors Shar­ing A Vil­la Dur­ing the Nurem­berg Trials
    Christiane Kohl; Anthea Bell, trans.
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    The Death March­es: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
    Daniel Blatman; Chaya Galai, trans.
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    His­tor­i­cal Dic­tio­nary of the Holo­caust, 2nd Edition
    Jack Fischel
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    Jews and the Civ­il War: A Reader
    Jonathan D. Sarna & Adam Mendelsohn, eds.
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    Nazi Pales­tine: The Plans for the Exter­mi­na­tion of the Jews in Palestine
    Klaus-Michael Mallmann & Martin Cüppers; Krista Smith, trans.
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    Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
    Charles King
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    His­to­ry of Greed: Finan­cial Fraud from Tulip Mania to Bernie Madoff
    David E. Y. Sarna
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    Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jew­ish Col­lec­tors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice
    Melissa Müller and Monika Tatzkow
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    In the Demon’s Bed­room: Yid­dish Lit­er­a­ture and the Ear­ly Modern
    Jere­my Dauber
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    Once They Had a Coun­try: Two Teenage Refugees in the Sec­ond World War
    Muriel R. Gillick
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    Dreams of Nation­hood: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Com­mu­nists and the Sovi­et Biro­bidzhan Project, 1924 – 1951
    Henry Felix Srebrnik
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    Insid­ers and Out­siders: Dilem­mas of East Euro­pean Jewry
    Richard I. Cohen, Jonathan Frankel and Stefani Hoffman, eds.
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