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    Ein­stein in Kafka­land: How Albert Fell Down the Rab­bit Hole and Came Up with the Universe
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    Time’s Echo: The Sec­ond World War, the Holo­caust, and the Music of Remembrance
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Hen­ri­et­ta Szold: Hadas­sah and the Zion­ist Dream
Francine Klags­brun
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Tar­get Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sab­o­tage, Cyber­war­fare, Assas­si­na­tion – and Secret Diplo­ma­cy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Cre­ate a New Mid­dle East
Yon­ah Jere­my Bob
llan Evy­atar
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The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Bat­tle for Its Inner Soul
Isabel Ker­sh­n­er
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Feed­ing Women of the Tal­mud, Feed­ing Ourselves
Kenden Alfond
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One Hun­dred Sat­ur­days: Stel­la Levi and the Search for a Lost World
Michael Frank
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Peo­ple Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunt­ed Present
Dara Horn
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From Left to Right: Lucy S. Daw­id­ow­icz, the New York Intel­lec­tu­als, and the Pol­i­tics of Jew­ish History
Nan­cy Sinkoff
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The Sev­enth Heav­en: Trav­els Through Jew­ish Latin America
Ilan Sta­vans
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism 
Bari Weiss
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The Lions’ Den: Zion­ism and the Left from Han­nah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
Susie Lin­field
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Spies of No Coun­try: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
Matti Friedman Winner of the 2018 Natan Book Award
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If All the Seas Were Ink
Ilana Kurshan Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
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Jew­ish Com­e­dy: A Seri­ous History
Jeremy Dauber Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
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Root­ed Cos­mopoli­tans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twen­ti­eth Century
James Loef­fler Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
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My Promised Land: The Tri­umph and Tragedy of Israel
Ari Shavit Winner of the 2014 Natan Book Award

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