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    The Col­ors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 – 1945
    George Bornstein
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    The Jew­ish Odyssey: An Illus­trat­ed History
    Marek Halter; Charles Penwarden, trans.
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    Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
    Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
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    Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Time of Jesus
    Jodi Magness
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    The Jews of North Africa: From Dido to De Gaulle
    Sarah Taieb-Carlen; Amos Carlen, trans.
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    Sephar­di Fam­i­ly Life in the Ear­ly Mod­ern Diaspora
    Julia R. Lieberman, ed.
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    Bratisla­va Press­burg Poz­sony: Jew­ish Sec­u­lar Endeav­ors, 1867 – 1938
    A. Robert Neurath
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    The Frank­furt Juden­gasse: Jew­ish Life in an Ear­ly Mod­ern Ger­man City
    Fritz Backhaus, Gisela Engel, Robert Liberles and Margarete Schlüter, eds.
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    Gen­der and Jew­ish History
    Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, eds.
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    The Jews of San Nicandro
    John A. Davis
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    Halakhah in the Mak­ing: The Devel­op­ment of Jew­ish Law from Qum­ran to the Rabbis
    Aharon Shemesh
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    Good Arabs: The Israeli Secu­ri­ty Agen­cies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948 – 1967
    Hillel Cohen; Haim Watzman, trans.
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    Norman Gelb
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    Kenneth B. Moss
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    Gregory Freidin
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    Con­stance Rosenblum
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