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    The Ellis Island Snow Globe
    Erica Rand
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    Fire and Song: The Sto­ry of Luis de Car­va­jal and the Mex­i­can Inquisition
    Anna Lanyon
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    Gertrude Himmelfarb
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    You Need a School­house: Book­er T. Wash­ing­ton, Julius Rosen­wald, and the Build­ing of Schools for the Seg­re­gat­ed South
    Stephanie Deutsch
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    Jour­ney to Heav­en: Explor­ing Jew­ish Views of the Afterlife
    Leila Leah Bronner
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    Zion­ism: A Brief History
    Michael Brenner; Shelley Frisch, trans.
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    The Nat­ur­al His­to­ry of the Bible: An Envi­ron­men­tal Explo­ration of the Hebrew Scriptures
    Daniel Hillel
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    Where God Was Born
    Bruce Feiler
    Cover of Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived
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    Remem­ber­ing: Voic­es of the Holo­caust: A New His­to­ry in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived
    Lyn Smith
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    Dai­ly Life of the Jews in the Mid­dle Ages
    Norman Roth
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    Crim­i­nal Case 40/61, The Tri­al of Adolf Eichmann
    Harry Mulisch
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    Pover­ty and Char­i­ty in the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty of Medieval Egypt
    Mark R. Cohen
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    The Rise of Mod­ern Yid­dish Cullture
    David E. Fishman
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    Demon­ic Desires: Yet­zer Hara and the Prob­lem of Evil in Late Antiquity
    Ishay Rosen-Zvi
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    The Rise of the Indi­vid­ual in 1950s Israel: A Chal­lenge to Collectivism
    Orit Rozin
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    The First Mod­ern Jew: Spin­oza and the His­to­ry of an Image
    Daniel B. Schwartz
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