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Essays

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The Amos Oz Reader
Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans.; Nitza Ben-Dov, ed.
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Argu­ing The Mod­ern Jew­ish Canon: Essays on Lit­er­a­ture and Cul­ture in Hon­or of Ruth R. Wisse
Justin Cammy, Dara Horn, Alyssa Quint, and Rachel Rubinstein, eds.
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Mai­monides After 800 Years
Jay M. Harris
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The Writer Uproot­ed: Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Exile Literature
Alvin Rosen­feld
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A Cat in the Ghetto
Rachmil Bryks; S. Morris Engel, trans.; Adam Rovner, fwd.
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Claude Lanz­man­n’s Shoah: Key Essays
Stuart Liebman, ed.
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The Sacred Table: Cre­at­ing a Jew­ish Food Ethic
Mary L. Zamore, ed.; Eric H. Yoffie, fwd.; Nigel Savage, preface
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The Din in the Head: Essays
Cyn­thia Ozick
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Abra­ham Joshua Hes­chel: Essen­tial Writings
Abraham Joshua Heschel; Susannah Heschel, ed.
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Mai­monides and His Heritage
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn E. Goodman, and James Allen Grady, eds.
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What Israel Means to Me
Alan Dershowitz, ed.
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How to Cure a Fanatic
Amos Oz
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My Future is in Amer­i­ca: Auto­bi­ogra­phies of East­ern Euro­pean Jew­ish Immigrants
Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer, ed. and trans.
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Twice Blessed: On Being Les­bian or Gay and Jewish
Christie Balka and Andy Rose, eds.
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Moral Grandeur and Spir­i­tu­al Audac­i­ty: Essays
Abraham Joshua Heschel; Susannah Heschel, ed.
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A Unique Per­spec­tive: Rav Breuer’s Essays, 1914 – 1973
Rav. Dr. Joseph Breuer; Elliott Bondi and David Bechhofer, eds.
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