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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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    Against the Grain: Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­als in Hard Times
    Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
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    Rock­et and Light­ship: Essays on Lit­er­a­ture and Ideas
    Adam Kirsch
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    How to Suc­ceed in Busi­ness with­out Real­ly Crying
    Car­ol Leifer
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    Stars of David: Promi­nent Jews Talk About Being Jewish
    Abi­gail Pogrebin
    Cover of Strength & Compassion: Photographs and Essays
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    Strength & Com­pas­sion: Pho­tographs and Essays
    Eric Gre­it­ens
    Cover of The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays 1942-2009
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    The Neo­con­ser­v­a­tive Per­sua­sion: Select­ed Essays 1942 – 2009
    Irving Kristol; Gertrude Himmelfarb, ed.; William Kristol, fwd.
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    Woody on Rye: Jew­ish­ness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen
    Vincent Brook & Marat Grinberg, eds.
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    The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
    Jonathan Franzen and Karl Kraus
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    Israeli Fem­i­nism Lib­er­at­ing Judaism: Blood and Ink
    Bonna Devora Haberman
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    Elie Wiesel: Jew­ish, Lit­er­ary, and Moral Perspectives
    Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen, eds.
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    A Jew­ish Pro­fes­sor’s Polit­i­cal Pun­dit­ry: Fifty-plus Years of Pub­lished Com­men­tary by Ron Rubin
    Peri Devaney, ed.
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    Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imag­i­na­tion, Memory
    Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler, eds.
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    Invent­ing the Mod­ern Yid­dish Stage: Essays in Dra­ma, Per­for­mance, and Show Business
    Joel Berkowitz and Barbara Henry, eds.
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    Jew­ish Renais­sance and Revival in Amer­i­ca: Essays in Mem­o­ry of Leah Levitz Fish­bane, ז״ ל
    Eitan P. Fishbane and Jonathan D. Sarna, eds.
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    Liv­ing Jew­ish­ly: A Snap­shot of a Generation
    Stefanie Pervos Bregman, ed.
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