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Josh Han­ft

Josh Han­ft holds Advanced Degrees in Eng­lish and Com­par­a­tive Lit­er­a­ture from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and curat­ed the renowned read­ing series, Scrib­blers on the Roof, for over twen­ty years.

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Abra­ham: The First Jew
Antho­ny Julius
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For Such a Time as This: On Being Jew­ish Today
Elliot Cos­grove
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Psy­cho­analy­sis and Wis­dom: Encoun­ter­ing ​‘Ethics of the Fathers’
Paul Mar­cus
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The Way of Human­i­ty Accord­ing to Cha­sidic Teaching
Martin Buber; Bernard H. Mehlman and Gabriel E. Padawer, trans.
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The Last Words of Moses
Micah Goodman; Ilana Kurshan, trans.
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Who Are the Jews―And Who Can We Become?
Don­niel Hartman
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The Sacred Earth: Jew­ish Per­spec­tives on Our Planet
Andrue J. Kahn, ed.
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Judaism Dis­rupt­ed: A Spir­i­tu­al Man­i­festo for the 21st Century
Michael Strass­feld
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The Hid­den Order of Inti­ma­cy: Reflec­tions on the Book of Leviticus
Avi­vah Got­tlieb Zornberg
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Mon­key Boy
Francisco Goldman
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Esther in America
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Halpern (editor)
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Fic­tion
Bel­ladon­na
Daša Drndić; Celia Hawkesworth, trans.
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The Man Who Nev­er Stopped Sleeping
Aharon Appelfeld
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Oy, Caram­ba!: An Anthol­o­gy of Jew­ish Sto­ries from Latin America
Ilan Sta­vans
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Book of Num­bers: A Novel
Joshua Cohen

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