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    Essays

    Cover of The Jewish Annotated New Testament: New Revised Standard Version
    Jew­ish Text
    The Jew­ish Anno­tat­ed New Tes­ta­ment: New Revised Stan­dard Version
    Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds.
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    The Dynam­ics of Amer­i­can Jew­ish His­to­ry: Jacob Rad­er Mar­cus’s Essays on Amer­i­can Jewry
    Gary Phillip Zola, ed.
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    A Sense of the Mys­te­ri­ous: Sci­ence and the Human Spirit
    Alan Light­man
    Cover of The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003
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    The Com­ing of Lilith: Essays on Fem­i­nism, Judaism, and Sex­u­al Ethics, 1972 – 2003
    Judith Plaskow, Donna Berman, eds.
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    Arguably: Essays
    Christopher Hitchens
    Cover of An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
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    An Ever­last­ing Meal: Cook­ing with Econ­o­my and Grace
    Tamar Adler
    Cover of Portraits in Literature: The Jews of Poland, An Anthology
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    Por­traits in Lit­er­a­ture: The Jews of Poland, An Anthology
    Hava Bromberg Ben-Zvi, ed. and trans.
    Cover of Days of Deliverance: Essays on Purim and Hanukkah
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    Days of Deliv­er­ance: Essays on Purim and Hanukkah
    Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
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    New Essays on Zionism
    David Hazony; Yoram Hazony; Michael B. Oren, eds.
    Cover of Redemptions: Contemporary Chassidic Essays on the Parsha and the Festivals
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    Redemp­tions: Con­tem­po­rary Chas­sidic Essays on the Par­sha and the Festivals
    Rabbi Zvi Leshem
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    Har­vest of a Decade: Dis­raelia and Oth­er Essays
    Walter Laqueur
    Cover of The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats
    Visu­al Arts
    The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats
    Claudia J. Nahson with Maurice Berger and Emily Casden
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    The Promise
    Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger
    Cover of The Literary Community: Selected Essays 1967-2007
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    The Lit­er­ary Com­mu­ni­ty: Select­ed Essays 1967 – 2007
    Ted Solotaroff; Russell Banks, intro.
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    Cul­ture Front: Rep­re­sent­ing Jews in East­ern Europe
    Benjamin Nathans and Gabriella Safran, eds.
    Cover of Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics
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    Writ­ing in the Dark: Essays on Lit­er­a­ture and Politics
    David Gross­man
    Jes­si­ca Cohen
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