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Contemporary Jewish Life

Cover of The Din in the Head: Essays
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The Din in the Head: Essays
Cyn­thia Ozick
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Jew­topia: The Cho­sen Book for the Cho­sen People
Bryan Fogel; Sam Wolfson
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A Time­less Peo­ple: Pho­to Album of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Life
Saul H. Landa
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Wait­ing: Select­ed Nonfiction
Elizabeth Swados
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The Mod­ern Men’s Torah Com­men­tary: New Insights from Jew­ish Men on the 54 Week­ly Torah Portions
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, ed.
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God of Our Under­stand­ing: Jew­ish Spir­i­tu­al­i­ty and Recov­ery from Addiction
Rabbi Shais Taub
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Emma Gold­man: Rev­o­lu­tion as a Way of Life
Vivian Gornick
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Kosher Chi­nese: Liv­ing, Teach­ing, and Eat­ing with Chi­na’s Oth­er Billion
Michael Levy
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Beyond the Façade: A Syn­a­gogue, A Restora­tion, A Legacy
Larry Bortniker, Roberta Brandes Gratz, and Bonnie Dimun
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Sin­ners on Tri­al: Jews and Sac­ri­lege after the Reformation
Magda Teter
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Ben-Guri­on: A Polit­i­cal Life
Shimon Peres with David Landau
Cover of Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History
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Jew­ish Roots in South­ern Soil: A New History
Marcie Cohen Ferris and Mark I. Greenberg, eds.
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Invent­ing Great Neck-Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty and the Amer­i­can Dream
Judith S. Goldstein
Cover of Hell Is Other Parents: And Other Tales of Maternal Combustion
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Hell Is Oth­er Par­ents: And Oth­er Tales of Mater­nal Combustion
Deborah Copaken Kogan
Cover of Last Days in Babylon: The History of a Family, The Story of a Nation
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Last Days in Baby­lon: The His­to­ry of a Fam­i­ly, The Sto­ry of a Nation
Marina Benjamin
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Being Jew­ish: The Spir­i­tu­al and Cul­tur­al Prac­tice of Judaism Today
Ari L. Goldman
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