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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 101. 
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3.52 avg rating — 31 ratings 101. 
A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe 3.69 avg rating — 54 ratings
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3.46 avg rating — 85 ratings 106. 
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4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe 3.95 avg rating — 171 ratings
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Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures
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Talya Fishman
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4.32 avg rating — 667 ratings 
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The Faith of the Mithnagdim: Rabbinic Responses to Hasidic Rapture
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4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings 
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings 119. 
Jews on Tin Pan Alley: The Jewish Contribution to American Popular Music, 1830-1940 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 123. 
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Navarodok: A Movement That Lived in Struggle and Its Unique Approach to the Problem of Man
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The Legacy: Teachings for Life from the Great Lithuanian Rabbis
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 139. 
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Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
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4.32 avg rating — 3,565 ratings 147. 
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4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings 149. 
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3.76 avg rating — 67 ratings 150. 
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Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict
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3.87 avg rating — 5,054 ratings 156. 
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Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World
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4.07 avg rating — 131 ratings 
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My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor 4.18 avg rating — 3,420 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 159 ratings 194. 
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by:
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4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings 197. 
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3.43 avg rating — 44 ratings 198. 
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3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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4.22 avg rating — 516 ratings