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    The Nurem­berg Women: The Untold Sto­ry of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice
    Natal­ie Livingstone
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    The Pope Against Nurem­berg: How the Vat­i­can Helped Nazis Escape Post­war Justice
    Ger­ald J. Steinacher
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    Men­achem Kip­nis Yid­dish Folk­lore and Pho­tographs from Inter­war Poland
    Sheila E Jelen, ed.; Raphael Finkel, trans.; Menachem Kipnis, photographer
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    The Amer­i­can: The Hid­den His­to­ry of Daniel J. Boorstin and His Twen­ti­eth Century
    Jon Boorstin
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    The Girl in Blue: Renoir’s Por­trait of a Dynasty Erased
    Doreen Car­va­jal
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    Deliv­er­ing Knowl­edge: Jew­ish Mid­wives and Hid­den Heal­ing in Ear­ly Mod­ern Europe
    Jor­dan Katz
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    The Sev­en­ty Shuls: Syn­a­gogue Life and Yid­dishkeit from the Pine Bar­rens to the Boardwalk
    Josh Cut­ler
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    Mem­o­ries of a Good Meal: Recipes of Resilience, Inspired by Sto­ries of World War II Survival
    Alon Shaya
    June Hersh
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    Shad­ow Before the Flame: The Hin­den­burg Dis­as­ter and the Pre­lude to War
    Cather­ine Grace Katz
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    The City With­out Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna
    Dou­glas Smith
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    Excep­tion­al Hatred: Anti­semitism and the Fight over Free Speech in Mod­ern America
    James Loef­fler
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    Red Snow: A Son’s Explo­ration of His Par­ents’ Holo­caust Experiences
    Robert Zweig
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    Here Where We Live Is Our Coun­try The Sto­ry of the Jew­ish Bund
    Mol­ly Crabapple
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    Berlin Before and After: A Cau­tion­ary Mir­ror for Our Times
    Wendy Less­er
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    Out of the Depths The First Col­lec­tion of Holo­caust Songs
    Joseph Toltz
    Anna Bouch­er
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    A Lin­ger­ing Lega­cy: The After­life of Yid­dish in Ger­man-Jew­ish Cul­ture, 1818 – 1938
    Aya Elya­da
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