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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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    War on the Margins
    Libby Cone
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    Hitler, the Ger­mans, and the Final Solution
    Ian Kershaw
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    Chil­dren’s
    Jew­ish Migration
    John Bliss; Jeff Edwards, illus.
    Cover of For Decades I Was Silent: A Holocaust Survivor's Journey Back to Faith
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    For Decades I Was Silent: A Holo­caust Sur­vivor’s Jour­ney Back to Faith
    Baruch G. Goldstein
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    Chil­dren’s
    Ire­na Sendler and the Chil­dren of the War­saw Ghetto
    Susan Rubin Goldman; Bill Farnsworth, illus.
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    Jew­ish Per­spec­tives on Hel­lenis­tic Rulers
    Tessa Rajak, Sarah Pearce, James Aitken, and Jennifer Dines, eds.
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    Lili Mar­lene: The Sol­diers’ Song of World War II
    Liel Leibovitz and Matthew Miller
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    Cre­ation of the Mod­ern Mid­dle East: Israel
    Louise Chipley Slavicek; Arthur Goldschmidt Jr., ed.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Israel and Palestine
    Paul Mason
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    Today I Am a Woman

    Shu­lamit Rein­harz and Bar­bara Vinick are the edi­tors of the recent­ly pub­lished Today I Am a Woman: Sto­ries of Bat Mitz­vah around the World. They will be…
    Bar­bara Vinick, Shu­lamit Reinharz
    January 9, 2012
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    Lives of Hitler’s Jew­ish Sol­diers: Untold Tales of Men of Jew­ish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich
    Bryan Mark Rigg
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    The Part­ing of the Sea: How Vol­ca­noes, Earth­quakes, and Plagues Shaped the Sto­ry of Exodus
    Barbara J. Sivertsen
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    The Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Roots of Mod­ern Yid­dish 1903 – 1917
    Barry Trachtenberg
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    Car­toons and Extrem­ism: Israel and the Jews in Arab and West­ern Media
    Joel Kotek
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