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    Death of a Lan­guage: The His­to­ry of Judeo-Spanish
    Tracy K. Harris
    Cover of Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History
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    Sephardic Jews in Amer­i­ca: A Dias­poric History
    Aviva Ben-Ur
    Cover of The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean: The Spanish-Portuguese Jewish settlements in the Caribbean and the Guianas
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    The Jew­ish Nation of the Caribbean: The Span­ish-Por­tuguese Jew­ish set­tle­ments in the Caribbean and the Guianas
    Mordechai Arbell
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    How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America
    Karen Brodkin
    Cover of The Sephardim: Their Glorious Tradition from the Babylonian Exile to the Present Day
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    The Sephardim: Their Glo­ri­ous Tra­di­tion from the Baby­lon­ian Exile to the Present Day
    Lucien Gubbay and Abraham Levy
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    Pol­lu­tion in a Promised Land: An Envi­ron­men­tal His­to­ry of Israel
    Alon Tal
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    Torah of the Earth: Explor­ing 4,000 Years of Ecol­o­gy in Jew­ish Thought
    Arthur Waskow, ed.
    Cover of Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank
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    Eva’s Sto­ry: A Sur­vivor’s Tale by the Step­sis­ter of Anne Frank
    Eva Schloss with Evelyn Julia Kent
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    Chil­dren’s
    The Jew­ish Americans
    Marissa Lingen
    Cover of An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
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    An Unspeak­able Crime: The Pros­e­cu­tion and Per­se­cu­tion of Leo Frank
    Elaine Alphin
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    At the Mer­cy of Strangers: The Res­cue of Jew­ish Chil­dren With Assumed Iden­ti­ties in Poland
    Nahum Bogner
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    The Land of Blood and Hon­ey: The Rise of Mod­ern Israel
    Martin van Creveld
    Cover of The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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    The Bal­four Dec­la­ra­tion: The Ori­gins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    Jonathan Schneer
    Cover of Dividing Hearts: The Removal of Jewish Children from Gentile Families in Poland in the Immediate Post Holocaust Years
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    Divid­ing Hearts: The Removal of Jew­ish Chil­dren from Gen­tile Fam­i­lies in Poland in the Imme­di­ate Post Holo­caust Years
    Emunah Nachmany Gafny
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    Res­cue & Flight: Amer­i­can Relief Work­ers Who Defied the Nazis
    Susan Elizabeth Subak; William F. Schulz, aftwd.
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    Jew­ish Respons­es to Per­se­cu­tion, 1933 – 1946: Vol­ume I
    Jurgen Matthaus and Mark Roseman
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