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    Cover of Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion and the Scandal of the Century
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    Drey­fus: Pol­i­tics, Emo­tion and the Scan­dal of the Century
    Ruth Harris
    Cover of Emissary of the Doomed: Bargaining For Lives in the Holocaust
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    Emis­sary of the Doomed: Bar­gain­ing For Lives in the Holocaust
    Ronald Florence
    Cover of Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History
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    Ear­ly Mod­ern Jew­ry: A New Cul­tur­al History
    David B. Ruderman
    Cover of Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism and Acculturation in 19th and Early 20th Century Russia
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    Empire Jews: Jew­ish Nation­al­ism and Accul­tur­a­tion in 19th and Ear­ly 20th Cen­tu­ry Russia
    Brian Horowitz
    Cover of Still Jewish: A History of Women and Intermarriage in America
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    Still Jew­ish: A His­to­ry of Women and Inter­mar­riage in America
    Keren R. McGinity
    Cover of Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
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    Danc­ing in the Dark: A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of the Great Depression
    Morris Dickstein
    Cover of Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry That Created The Nuclear Age
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    Ura­ni­um Wars: The Sci­en­tif­ic Rival­ry That Cre­at­ed The Nuclear Age
    Amir D. Aczel
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    A Heart Afire: Sto­ries and Teach­ing of the Ear­ly Hasidic Masters
    Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles- Yepez; Arthur Green, fwd.
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    Jerusalem: City of Longing
    Simon Goldhill
    Cover of Major Farran's Hat: The Untold Story of the Struggle to Establish the Jewish State
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    Major Far­ran’s Hat: The Untold Sto­ry of the Strug­gle to Estab­lish the Jew­ish State
    David Cesarani
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    The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History
    Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
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    Hitler’s Intel­li­gence Chief: Wal­ter Shel­len­berg: The Man Who Kept Ger­many’s Secrets
    Reinhard R. Dorries
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    Screen­ing a Lynch­ing: The Leo Frank Case on Film and Television
    Matthew H. Bernstein
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    Nit­zotz: The Spark of Resis­tance of Kovno Ghet­to and Dachau-Kaufer­ing Con­cen­tra­tion Camp
    Laura Weinrib, ed. and intro; Estee Weinrib, trans.
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    The Yad Vashem Ency­clo­pe­dia of the Ghet­tos Dur­ing the Holocaust
    Guy Miren, ed.
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    Hag­gadah for the Fifth Child: A Fes­tive Dis­cus­sion on the Exo­dus and History
    Donald B. Susswein
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