[JGC] Jewish Nonfiction History - NOT WWII/Holocaust or Biblical

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One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World 4.27 avg rating — 3,811 ratings
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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist 4.48 avg rating — 6,433 ratings
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The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance 4.42 avg rating — 872 ratings
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Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books 4.25 avg rating — 2,213 ratings
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge 3.56 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America
The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America 3.48 avg rating — 92 ratings
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American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York 3.79 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction
The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction 3.44 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family
Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multi-Racial Jewish Family 3.85 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King 4.11 avg rating — 7,968 ratings
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The Messiah Comes Tomorrow: Tales from the American Shtetl
The Messiah Comes Tomorrow: Tales from the American Shtetl
by: Alan Lupo
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry
When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry 4.32 avg rating — 274 ratings
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American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest 3.44 avg rating — 3,001 ratings
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Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
by: Bea Koch
3.60 avg rating — 941 ratings
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Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1945: Immigrants in the Golden Age 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context
Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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What America Owes the Jews, What Jews Owe America
What America Owes the Jews, What Jews Owe America
by: Dara Horn
4.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
18.
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books
From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books 3.93 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The House of Fragile Things: A History of Jewish Art Collectors in France, 1870 - 1945
The House of Fragile Things: A History of Jewish Art Collectors in France, 1870 - 1945 4.13 avg rating — 275 ratings
20.
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures
Crossing Borders: Hebrew Manuscripts as a Meeting-place of Cultures really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
21.
Out of Egypt: A Memoir
Out of Egypt: A Memoir 4.02 avg rating — 3,193 ratings
22.
Between Sodom and Eden
Between Sodom and Eden 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar (University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures Book 2)
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Leïla Sebbar (University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures Book 2) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series)
Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father (The Helen Rose Scheuer Jewish Women's Series) 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran 4.16 avg rating — 598 ratings
26.
My Thirty Minute Bar Mitzvah
My Thirty Minute Bar Mitzvah 3.67 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Music May Have Stopped, but the Party's Never Over
Bar Mitzvah Disco: The Music May Have Stopped, but the Party's Never Over 3.96 avg rating — 97 ratings
28.
Resurrecting Hebrew
Resurrecting Hebrew 3.26 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America 3.66 avg rating — 176 ratings
30.
Iconic Jewish Women: Fifty-Nine Inspiring, Courageous, Revolutionary Role Models for Young Girls
Iconic Jewish Women: Fifty-Nine Inspiring, Courageous, Revolutionary Role Models for Young Girls 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
31.
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press
Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press 4.07 avg rating — 212 ratings
32.
Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero
Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
33.
Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng
by: Xu Xin
3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
34.
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza 4.04 avg rating — 481 ratings
35.
Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction
Travels in Translation: Sea Tales at the Source of Jewish Fiction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa
City of Rogues and Schnorrers: Russia's Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir
The Punk-Rock Queen of the Jews: A Memoir
by: Rossi
4.25 avg rating — 102 ratings
38.
Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman
Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition
The Forgetting River: A Modern Tale of Survival, Identity, and the Inquisition 3.32 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World 4.04 avg rating — 4,939 ratings
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The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn
The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn 3.89 avg rating — 656 ratings
42.
Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman
Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman 4.24 avg rating — 338 ratings
43.
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today 3.88 avg rating — 182 ratings
44.
The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects
The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects 4.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City 4.02 avg rating — 117 ratings
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From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family
From Sarah to Sydney: The Woman Behind All-of-a-Kind Family 3.58 avg rating — 120 ratings
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A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg 4.10 avg rating — 324 ratings
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The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld 3.64 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life
Hedy Lamarr: An Incredible Life 3.73 avg rating — 607 ratings
50.
Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American
Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe
Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe 3.69 avg rating — 379 ratings
52.
A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom
A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Brooklyn The Borough Of Dreams
Brooklyn The Borough Of Dreams liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s: The Post-Holocaust Authors
Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy of the 1960s and 70s: The Post-Holocaust Authors it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss 3.44 avg rating — 2,671 ratings
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Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig
Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women
Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women 4.61 avg rating — 44 ratings
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We Are Black Jews: Ethiopian Jewry and the Journey to Equality in Israel
We Are Black Jews: Ethiopian Jewry and the Journey to Equality in Israel 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings