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    The Land of Blood and Hon­ey: The Rise of Mod­ern Israel
    Martin van Creveld
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    Res­cue & Flight: Amer­i­can Relief Work­ers Who Defied the Nazis
    Susan Elizabeth Subak; William F. Schulz, aftwd.
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    The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bar­gain With the Bomb
    Avner Cohen
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    Jew­ish Respons­es to Per­se­cu­tion, 1933 – 1946: Vol­ume I
    Jurgen Matthaus and Mark Roseman
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    The Holo­caust: A Con­cise History
    Doris L. Bergen
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    The Lib­er­a­tors: Amer­i­ca’s Wit­nessers to the Holocaust
    Michael Hirsh
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    The Prime Min­is­ters: An Inti­mate Nar­ra­tive of Israeli Leadership
    Yehuda Avner; Martin Gilbert, intro.
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    The Unspo­ken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Rela­tion­ship with Apartheid South Africa
    Sasha Polakow-Suransky
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    The Image of the Jews in Greek Lit­er­a­ture: The Hel­lenis­tic Period
    Bezalel Bar-Kochva
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    The War­saw Ghet­to: A Guide to the Per­ished City
    Barbara Engelking and Jacek Leociak; Emma Harris, trans.
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    Resti­tu­tion: A Fam­i­ly’s Fight for Their Her­itage Lost in the Holocaust
    Kathy Kac­er
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    Chelm­no: A Small Vil­lage in Europe: The First Nazi Exter­mi­na­tion Camp
    Shmuel Krakowski
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    Siegel and Shus­ter’s Fun­ny­man: The First Jew­ish Super­hero From the Cre­ators of Superman
    Thomas Andrae and Mel Gordon, eds; Danny Fingeroth, fwd.
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    Drey­fus: Pol­i­tics, Emo­tion and the Scan­dal of the Century
    Ruth Harris
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    Emis­sary of the Doomed: Bar­gain­ing For Lives in the Holocaust
    Ronald Florence
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    David B. Ruderman
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