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Jews and Mag­ic in Medici Flo­rence: The Secret World of Benedet­to Blanis
Edward Gold­berg
Nonfiction
On Char­i­ots with Hors­es of Fire and Iron: The Excur­sion­ists and the Nar­row Gauge Rail­road From Jaf­fa to Jerusalem
Antho­ny S. Travis
Nonfiction
The Mak­ing of Mod­ern Israel: 1948 – 1967
Leslie Stein
Nonfiction
Com­mem­o­rat­ing Hell: The Pub­lic Mem­o­ry of Mittelbau-Dora
Gretchen Schafft and Ger­hard Zeidler
Nonfiction
Chil­dren Dur­ing the Holo­caust: Doc­u­ment­ing Life and Destruc­tion: Holo­caust Sources in Con­text Series
Patri­cia Heberer
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How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III
Ron Rosen­baum
Nonfiction
Sin­ners on Tri­al: Jews and Sac­ri­lege after the Reformation
Mag­da Teter
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The Women Who Recon­struct­ed Amer­i­can Jew­ish Edu­ca­tion, 1910 – 1965
Car­ol K. Ingall, ed.
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Anti­semitism: A History
Albert S. Lin­de­mann and Richard S. Levy, eds.
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A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kind­ness– and a Trove of Let­ters– Revealed the Hid­den His­to­ry of the Great Depression
Ted Gup
Nonfiction
Beyond the Façade: A Syn­a­gogue, A Restora­tion, A Legacy
Lar­ry Bort­niker, Rober­ta Bran­des Gratz, and Bon­nie Dimun
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Eisen­how­er 1956: The President’s Year of Cri­sis, Suez and the Brink of War
David A. Nichols
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In the Gar­den of Beasts: Love, Ter­ror, and an Amer­i­can Fam­i­ly in Hitler’s Berlin
Erik Lar­son
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Jerusalem: The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Mur­der With­out Hatred: Esto­ni­ans and the Holocaust
Anton Weiss-Wendt
Nonfiction
The Lem­berg Mosa­ic: The Mem­oirs of Two Who Sur­vived the Destruc­tion of Jew­ish Galicia
Jakob Weiss
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The Mas­sacre of the Jews of Lithuania
Karen Sut­ton
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The Syn­a­gogue in Amer­i­ca: A Short History
Marc Lee Raphael
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Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
Shi­mon Peres with David Landau
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Gretel’s Sto­ry: A Young Woman’s Secret War Against the Nazis
Gre­tel Wach­tel and Clau­dia Strachan
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