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    Why the Jews Reject­ed Jesus: The Turn­ing Point in West­ern History
    David Klinghoffer
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    The Ran­som of the Jews: The Sto­ry of the Extra­or­di­nary Secret Bar­gain Between Roma­nia and Israel
    Radu Ioanid
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    From Joshua to Caiaphas High Priests After the Exile
    James C. Vanderkam
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    In Har­ness: Yid­dish Writ­ers’ Romance With Communism
    Gennady Estraikh
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    A Brief His­to­ry of the Jew­ish People
    Moshe Weiss
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    Gen­der and Jew­ish Dif­fer­ence From Paul to Shakespeare
    Lisa Lampert
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    The Exe­cu­tion of the Hang­man of Riga: The Only Exe­cu­tion of a Nazi War Crim­i­nal by the Mossad
    Anton Kuenzle; Gad Shimron; Uriel Masad, trans.
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    The Provin­cials: A Per­son­al His­to­ry of Jews in the South
    Eli N. Evans
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    How the Left Lost Teen Spirit
    Danny Goldberg
    Cover of Haunted in the New World: Jewish American Culture From Cahan to the Goldbergs
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    Haunt­ed in the New World: Jew­ish Amer­i­can Cul­ture From Cahan to the Goldbergs
    Donald Weber
    Cover of Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America 1860-1920
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    Jew­ish Girls Com­ing of Age in Amer­i­ca 1860 – 1920
    Melissa R. Klapper
    Cover of Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics and the Battle for the Soul of the City
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    Ladies and Gen­tle­men, The Bronx is Burn­ing: 1977, Base­ball, Pol­i­tics and the Bat­tle for the Soul of the City
    Jonathan Mahler
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    Liv­ing Through World War II
    Andrew Langley
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    Jerusalem Sky: Stars, Cross­es, and Crescents
    Mark Pod­w­al
    Cover of The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement
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    The Birth of Con­ser­v­a­tive Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Dis­ci­ples and the Cre­ation of an Amer­i­can Reli­gious Movement
    Michael R. Cohen
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    The Age of Insight: The Quest to Under­stand the Uncon­scious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vien­na 1900 to the Present
    Eric R. Kandel
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