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    Essays

    Cover of Yiddish in America: Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land
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    Yid­dish in Amer­i­ca: Essays on Yid­dish Cul­ture in the Gold­en Land
    Edward S. Shapiro
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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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    The Amos Oz Reader
    Amos Oz; Nicholas de Lange, trans.; Nitza Ben-Dov, ed.
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    Mai­monides After 800 Years
    Jay M. Harris
    Cover of The Writer Uprooted: Contemporary Jewish Exile Literature
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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
    Cover of Abraham Joshua Heschel: Essential Writings
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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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