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    Kristall­nacht 1938
    Alan E. Steinweis
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    Recon­struct­ing Ashke­naz: The Human Face of Fran­co-Ger­man Jew­ry, 1000 – 1250
    David Malkiel
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    Ghosts of Home: The After­life of Czer­nowitz in Jew­ish Memory
    Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
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    Think­ing in Dark Times: Han­nah Arendt on Ethics and Politics
    Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan, eds.
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    Sta­tion Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion: A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of Yid­dish Radio in the Unit­ed States
    Ari Y. Kelman
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    Kings of the Jews: Explor­ing the Ori­gins of the Jew­ish Nation
    Norman Gelb
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    Jew­ish Renais­sance in the Russ­ian Revolution
    Kenneth B. Moss
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    The Enig­ma of Isaac Babel: Biog­ra­phy, His­to­ry, Context
    Gregory Freidin
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    Jews in Nazi Berlin: From Kristall­nacht to Liberation
    Beate Meyer, Hermann Simon, Chana Schutz
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    Boule­vard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heart­break, and Hope along the Grand Con­course in the Bronx
    Con­stance Rosenblum
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    Ger­mans into Jews: Remak­ing the Jew­ish Social Body in the Weimar Republic
    Sharon Gillerman
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    Jews and Base­ball: Vol­ume 2, The Post-Green­berg Years, 1949 – 2008
    Burton A. Boxerman and Benita W. Boxerman; Ron Kaplan, fwd.
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    Ger­son­ides: Judaism with­in the Lim­its of Reason
    Seymour Feldman
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    Tri-Faith Amer­i­ca: How Catholics and Jews Held Post­war Amer­i­ca to Its Protes­tant Promise
    Kevin M. Schultz
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    1948: The First Arab-Israeli War
    Benny Morris
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    Rag and Bone: A Jour­ney Among the World’s Holy Dead
    Peter Manseau
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