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    (In)Sights: Peace­mak­ing in the Oslo Process Thir­ty Years and Counting
    Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein and Ari Afilalo
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    Final Ver­dict: The Holo­caust on Tri­al in the 21st Century
    Tobias Buck
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    How the West Became Anti­se­mit­ic: Jews and the For­ma­tion of Europe, 800‑1500
    Ivan G. Marcus
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    Why the Bible Began: An Alter­na­tive His­to­ry of Scrip­ture and its Origins
    Jacob L. Wright
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    Open­ing Doors: The Unlike­ly Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
    Hasia R. Diner
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    Just City: Grow­ing Up on the Upper West Side When Hous­ing Was a Human Right
    Jen­nifer Baum
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    Insep­a­ra­ble: A Holo­caust Sur­vival Story
    Faris Cas­sell
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    The Incor­rupt­ibles: A True Sto­ry of King­pins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the Amer­i­can Underworld
    Dan Slater
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    Lori Dubbin; Amanda Quartey, illus.
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    Say­ing No to Hate: Over­com­ing Anti­semitism in America
    Nor­man H. Finkelstein
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    Shy­lock­’s Venice: The Remark­able His­to­ry of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
    Har­ry Freedman
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    The Tal­ent­ed Mrs. Man­del­baum: The Rise and Fall of an Amer­i­can Orga­nized-Crime Boss
    Mar­galit Fox
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    Asaf Elia-Shalev
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    “I Heard These Sto­ries Dif­fer­ent­ly”: Inter­view­ing Mira

    Rachelle Unre­ich
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    Jew­ish Space Lasers: The Roth­schilds and 200 Years of Con­spir­a­cy Theories
    Mike Roth­schild
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