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    Music in Jew­ish His­to­ry and Culture
    Emanuel Rubin; John H. Baron
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    The Jews of Khaz­aria, 2nd Edition
    Kevin Alan Brook
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    To Be An Arab in Israel
    Laurence Louer
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    A King­dom of Priests: Ances­try and Mer­it in Ancient Judaism
    Martha Himmelfarb
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    Race and Reli­gion Among the Cho­sen Peo­ples of Crown Heights
    Henry Goldschmidt
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    Tel Aviv: Mythog­ra­phy of a City
    Maoz Azaryahu
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    Fox­bats Over Dimona: The Sovi­ets’ Nuclear Gam­ble in the Six-Day War
    Isabella Ginor; Gideon Remez
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    A Mur­der in Lem­berg: Pol­i­tics, Reli­gion, and Vio­lence in Mod­ern Jew­ish History
    Michael Stanislawski
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    Scrib­al Cul­ture and the Mak­ing of the Hebrew Bible
    Karel Van Der Toorn
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    State­craft: And How to Restore Amer­i­ca’s Stand­ing in the World
    Den­nis Ross
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    The Mas­ter Plan: Himm­ler’s Schol­ars and the Holocaust
    Heather Pringle
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    The Steins Col­lect: Matisse, Picas­so, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
    Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds.
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    Say­ing New Things About Old His­tor­i­cal Episodes

    Ear­li­er this week, Dr. Jonathan Sar­na wrote about writ­ing his most recent book, When Gen­er­al Grant Expelled the Jews, in Jerusalem. He has been blog­ging here all week for…
    Jonathan D. Sarna
    March 15, 2012
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    Erased: Van­ish­ing Traces of Jew­ish Gali­cia in Present-Day Ukraine
    Omer Bar­tov
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    Weimar Ger­many: Promise and Tragedy
    Eric D. Weitz
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    A Portable God: The Ori­gin of Judaism and Christianity
    Risa Levitt Kohn; Rebecca Moore
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