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David Levy

David Levy (B.A. Haver­ford Col­lege, MLS UMCP, Ph.D. Bal­ti­more Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty) cur­rent­ly serves as the librar­i­an at TC. LCW. David has pub­lished over 1,800 book reviews and var­i­ous papers in Judaica library sci­ence includ­ing, most recent­ly, ​“Halakhic Eth­i­cal Issues of the Online Envi­ron­ment” (AJL, 2011, Mon­tre­al) and ​“Teach­ing Judaica Library Sci­ence” (AJL, 2010 Seattle).
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Syn­a­gogue Song: An Intro­duc­tion To Con­cepts, The­o­ries, and Customs
Jonathan L. Friedman
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Pro­fes­sors on the Parashah: Stud­ies on the Week­ly Torah Reading
Leib Moscovitz, ed.
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The Voice of the Poor in the Mid­dle Ages: An Anthol­o­gy of Doc­u­ments From the Cairo Geniza
Mark Cohen
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Pover­ty and Char­i­ty in the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty of Medieval Egypt
Mark R. Cohen
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In the Nar­row Places: Dai­ly Inspi­ra­tion for the Three Weeks
Erica Brown
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The Zohar: Pritzk­er Edi­tion, Vol­ume Three
Daniel C. Matt, trans. and commentary

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