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    The Autumn Ghost: How the Bat­tle Against a Polio Epi­dem­ic Rev­o­lu­tion­ized Mod­ern Med­ical Care
    Han­nah Wunsch
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    Vio­lins and Hope: From the Holo­caust to Sym­pho­ny Hall
    Daniel Levin
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    Eng­land’s Jews: Finance, Vio­lence, and the Crown in the Thir­teenth Century
    John Tolan
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    From Jerusalem to Del­hi, through Persia
    Susan Adel­man
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    Mur­der­abil­ia: A His­to­ry of Crime in 100 Objects
    Harold Schechter
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    The Cig­ar Fac­to­ry of Isay Rot­ten­berg: The Hid­den His­to­ry of a Jew­ish Entre­pre­neur in Nazi Germany
    Robert Roten­berg
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    By the Grace of the Game: The Holo­caust, a Bas­ket­ball Lega­cy, and an Unprece­dent­ed Amer­i­can Dream
    Dan Grun­feld
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    Let’s Get Phys­i­cal: How Women Dis­cov­ered Exer­cise and Reshaped the World
    Danielle Fried­man
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    Nazi Bil­lion­aires: The Dark His­to­ry of Germany’s Wealth­i­est Dynasties
    David De Jong
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    The But­ter­fly and the Axe
    Omer Bar­tov
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    What Kind of a Name is Osnos?

    Peter Osnos
    August 30, 2021
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    Irma Stern and the Racial Para­dox of South African Mod­ern Art: Audac­i­ties of Color
    LaN­i­tra M. Berger
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    Bab­ka, Boulou, & Blintzes: Jew­ish Choco­late Recipes from around the World
    Michael Lev­en­thal
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    War­saw Ghet­to Police: The Jew­ish Order Ser­vice dur­ing the Nazi Occupation
    Katarzyna Person
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    Alexan­der Hamil­ton and His Jew­ish Witnesses

    Andrew Por­wanch­er
    August 16, 2021
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    Otto War­burg’s Jew­ish Identity

    Sam Apple
    August 16, 2021
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