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    Essays

    Cover of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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    On Tyran­ny: Twen­ty Lessons from the Twen­ti­eth Century
    Tim­o­thy Snyder
    Cover of Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel
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    Anti-Judaism, Anti­semitism, and Dele­git­imiz­ing Israel
    Robert S. Wistrich, ed.
    Cover of Essays on Ethics: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible
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    Essays on Ethics: A Week­ly Read­ing of the Jew­ish Bible
    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; Sen. Joseph Lieberman, fwd.
    Cover of The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner
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    The Lost Jour­nal­ism of Ring Lardner
    Ring Lardner; Ron Rapoport, ed.
    Cover of Makers of Jewish Modernity: Thinkers, Artists, Leaders, and the World They Made
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    Mak­ers of Jew­ish Moder­ni­ty: Thinkers, Artists, Lead­ers, and the World They Made
    Jacques Picard, Jacques M. Revel, Michael P. Steinberg, Idith Zertal, eds.
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    Borges, the Jew
    Ilan Sta­vans
    Cover of Against Everything
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    Against Every­thing
    Mark Greif
    Cover of Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays
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    Crit­ics, Mon­sters, Fanat­ics, and Oth­er Lit­er­ary Essays
    Cyn­thia Ozick
    Cover of Six Memos From the Last Millennium
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    Six Mem­os From the Last Millennium
    Joseph Ski­bell
    Cover of Talks on the Parasha
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    Talks on the Parasha
    Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz; Yisrael Malkiel, ed.
    Cover of Lessons in Leadership: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible
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    Lessons in Lead­er­ship: A Week­ly Read­ing of the Jew­ish Bible
    Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; Ronald Heifetz, fwd.
    Cover of Summer Haven: The Catskills, the Holocaust and the Literary Imagination
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    Sum­mer Haven: The Catskills, the Holo­caust and the Lit­er­ary Imagination
    Holli Levitsky and Phil Brown, eds.
    Cover of The Literature of the Holocaust
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    The Lit­er­a­ture of the Holocaust
    Alan Rosen
    Cover of My Father's Guitar & Other Imaginary Things: True Stories
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    My Father’s Gui­tar & Oth­er Imag­i­nary Things: True Stories
    Joseph Ski­bell
    Cover of Abraham: The World's First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer
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    Abra­ham: The World’s First (But Cer­tain­ly Not Last) Jew­ish Lawyer
    Alan Der­showitz
    Cover of A Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe
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    A Voice Still Heard: Select­ed Essays of Irv­ing Howe
    Irving Howe; Nina Howe, ed.
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