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Essays

Cover of Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel
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Anti-Judaism, Anti­semitism, and Dele­git­imiz­ing Israel
Robert S. Wistrich, ed.
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Essays on Ethics: A Week­ly Read­ing of the Jew­ish Bible
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks; Sen. Joseph Lieberman, fwd.
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.
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 Borges, the Jew
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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A Voice Still Heard: Select­ed Essays of Irv­ing Howe
Irving Howe; Nina Howe, ed.
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The Faith of Fall­en Jews: Yosef Hay­im Yerushal­mi and the Writ­ing of Jew­ish History
David N. Myers & Alexander Kaye, eds.
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