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    Pre­cious Objects: A Sto­ry of Dia­monds, Fam­i­ly, and a Way of Life
    Ali­cia Oltuski
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    The Mak­ing of Mod­ern Israel: 1948 – 1967
    Leslie Stein
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    Jonathan B. Krasner
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    Chil­dren Dur­ing the Holo­caust: Doc­u­ment­ing Life and Destruc­tion: Holo­caust Sources in Con­text Series
    Patricia Heberer
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    Sin­ners on Tri­al: Jews and Sac­ri­lege after the Reformation
    Magda Teter
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    Com­mem­o­rat­ing Hell: The Pub­lic Mem­o­ry of Mittelbau-Dora
    Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard Zeidler
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    Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
    Shimon Peres with David Landau
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    Levi­rate Mar­riage and the Fam­i­ly in Ancient Judaism
    Dvora E. Weisberg
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    God Inter­rupt­ed: Heresy and the Euro­pean Imag­i­na­tion Between the World Wars
    Benjamin Lazier
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    Eman­ci­pa­tion: How Lib­er­at­ing Europe’s Jews from the Ghet­to Led to Rev­o­lu­tion and Renaissance
    Michael Goldfarb
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    Invent­ing the Jew: Anti­semet­ic Stereo­types in Roman­ian and Oth­er Cen­tral-East Euro­pean Cultures
    Andrei Oisteanu; Mirela Adascalitei, trans.; Moshe Idel, fwd.
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    Jew­ish Pub­lic Cul­ture in the Late Russ­ian Empire
    Jeffrey Veidlinger
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    The Jews of Bia­lystok Dur­ing World War II and the Holocaust
    Sara Bender
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    Last Days in Baby­lon: The His­to­ry of a Fam­i­ly, The Sto­ry of a Nation
    Marina Benjamin
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    Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, eds.
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    Pri­mo Levi
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