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    Sephardism: Span­ish Jew­ish His­to­ry and the Mod­ern Lit­er­ary Imagination
    Yael Halevi-Wise, ed.
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    From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Sup­pressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends
    Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch; Valerie Zakovitch, trans.
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    The Holy or the Bro­ken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buck­ley & the Unlike­ly Ascent of ​“Hal­lelu­jah”
    Alan Light
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    The Tri­al of the Tal­mud: Paris, 1240
    John Friedman, Jean Connell Hoff & Robert Chazan
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    The Pen­du­lum: A Grand­daugh­ter’s Search for Her Fam­i­ly’s For­bid­den Nazi Past
    Julie Lin­dahl
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    Death March Escape: The Remark­able Sto­ry of a Man who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
    Jack J. Hersch
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    Hen­ry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Bat­tle Against Hate Speech
    Victoria Saker Woeste
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    Brand­ed by the Pink Triangle
    Ken Setterington
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    Hol­ly­wood and Hitler, 1933 – 1939
    Thomas Doher­ty
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    Wil­son
    A. Scott Berg
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    Lady at the O.K. Cor­ral: The True Sto­ry of Josephine Mar­cus Earp
    Ann Kirschn­er
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    The Bat­tle for Jerusalem: An Unin­tend­ed Conquest
    Abra­ham Rabinovich
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    The Boy in the Suit­case: Holo­caust Sto­ries of Survival
    Sheryl Nee­dle Cohn
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    The Vio­lin
    David Schoen­baum
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    State of Fail­ure: Yass­er Arafat, Mah­moud Abbas, and the Unmak­ing of the Pales­tin­ian State
    Jonathan Schanz­er
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    From Kristall­nacht to Water­gate: Mem­oirs of a Newspaperman
    Har­ry Rosenfeld
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