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    Yid­dish in the Cold War
    Gennady Estraikh
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    Visu­al Arts
    Besa: Mus­lims Who Saved Jews in World War II
    Norman Gershman
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    Jew­ish Pirates of the Caribbean
    Edward Kritzler
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    Jews and Shoes
    Edna Nahshon
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    Visu­al Arts
    Cha­gall and the Artists of the Russ­ian Jew­ish Theater
    Susan Tumarkin Goodman, ed.
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    Did God Have a Wife? Archae­ol­o­gy and Folk Reli­gion in Ancient Israel
    William G. Dever
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    The Rise of Israel: A His­to­ry of the Rev­o­lu­tion­ary State
    Jonathan Adelman
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    Jew­ish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life, His­to­ry, Pol­i­tics, and Culture
    Ruth Kark, Margalit Shilo, Galit Hasan-Rokem, eds,; Shulamit Reinharz, fwd.
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    The Secret War With Iran: The Clan­des­tine Strug­gle Against Israel and the West
    Ronen Bergman
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    The Tem­ple of Jerusalem: Past, Present, and Future
    John M, Lundquist
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    Hitler’s For­eign Exe­cu­tion­ers: Europe’s Dirty Secret
    Christopher Hale
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    Hebrew Writ­ing of the First World War
    Glenda Abramson
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    The Oral Law of Sinai: An Illus­trat­ed His­to­ry of the Mishnah
    Rabbi Berel Wein
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    Make ​‘em Laugh: The Fun­ny Busi­ness of America
    Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor
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    Voic­es From Shang­hai: Jew­ish Exiles in Wartime China
    Irene Eber, ed., trans., and intro.
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    Life and Death in the Third Reich
    Peter Fritzsche
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