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    Cover of Yiddish Civilization: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
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    Yid­dish Civ­i­liza­tion: The Rise and Fall of a For­got­ten Nation
    Paul Kriwaczek
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    Trou­bling the Waters: Black-Jew­ish Rela­tions in the Amer­i­can Century
    Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
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    Refuge Denied
    Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller
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    Becom­ing Eichmann
    David Cesarani
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    Sephardic and Mizrahi Jew­ry: From the Gold­en Age of Spain to Mod­ern Times
    Zion Zohar, ed.
    Cover of An Uneasy Relationship: American Jewish Leadership and Israel, 1948 - 1957
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    An Uneasy Rela­tion­ship: Amer­i­can Jew­ish Lead­er­ship and Israel, 1948 — 1957
    Zvi Ganin
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    The JPS Guide to Jew­ish Women
    Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry and Cheryl Tallan, eds.
    Cover of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
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    Betray­ing Spin­oza: The Rene­gade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
    Rebecca Goldstein
    Cover of Models and Meanings in the History of Jewish Leadership
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    Mod­els and Mean­ings in the His­to­ry of Jew­ish Leadership
    Hal M. Lewis
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    The Killing Trap: Geno­cide in the 20th Century
    Manus L. Midlarsky
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    Author­i­ty, Pow­er, and Lead­er­ship in the Jew­ish Polity
    Daniel J. Elazar
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    Roo­sevelt and the Holocaust
    Robert L. Beir, Brian Josepher
    Cover of We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando From Auschwitz
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    We Wept With­out Tears: Tes­ti­monies of the Jew­ish Son­derkom­man­do From Auschwitz
    Gideon Greif
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    Peace is Pos­si­ble: Con­ver­sa­tions with Arab and Israeli Lead­ers from 1988 to the Present
    S. Daniel Abraham
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    Secre­cy and Deceit: The Reli­gion of the Crypto-Jews
    David M. Gitlitz
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    Death of a Lan­guage: The His­to­ry of Judeo-Spanish
    Tracy K. Harris
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