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    Hid­den Amer­i­ca: From Coal Min­ers to Cow­boys, an Extra­or­di­nary Explo­ration of the Unseen Peo­ple Who Make This Coun­try Work
    Jeanne Marie Laskas
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    Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy, eds.
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    Hel­ga’s Diary
    Helga Weiss; Francine Prose, intro.
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    Jew­ish Art: A Mod­ern History
    Samantha Baskind and Larry Silver
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    Israel Though My Lens: Six­ty Years as a Photojournalist
    David Rubinger with Ruth Corman
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    The Lady in Gold: The Extra­or­di­nary Tale of Gus­tav Klimt’s Mas­ter­piece, Por­trait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
    Anne-Marie O’Connor
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    Lega­cy: A Genet­ic His­to­ry of the Jew­ish People
    Har­ry Ostrer
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    The For­get­ting Riv­er: A Mod­ern Tale of Sur­vival, Iden­ti­ty, and the Inquisition
    Doreen Car­va­jal
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    The Cri­sis of Zionism
    Peter Beinart
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    A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordi­nary Nazis and the Holocaust
    Mary Ful­brook
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    Eat the City: A Tale of the Fish­ers, For­agers, Butch­ers, Farm­ers, Poul­try Min­ders, Sug­ar Refin­ers, Cane Cut­ters, Bee­keep­ers, Wine­mak­ers, and Brew­ers Who Built New York
    Robin Shulman
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    What’s Legal
    Lee Crane
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    Judg­ment Before Nurem­berg: The Holo­caust in the Ukraine and the First Nazi War Crime Trial
    Greg Daw­son
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    Christopher Krebs
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    Aili and Andres McConnon
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    Jeffrey Zaslow
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