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    Essays

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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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    I Drink For A Reason
    David Cross
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    Some­times I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and Observations
    Jill Kargman
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    Jew­ish Dimen­sions in Mod­ern Visu­al Cul­ture: Anti­semitism, Assim­i­la­tion, Affirmation
    Rose-Carol Washton Long, Matthew Baigell and Milly Heyd, eds.
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    Per­se­cu­tion, Polemic, and Dia­logue: Essays in Jew­ish-Chris­t­ian Relations
    David Berger
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    Jew­ish Jour­neys: From Phi­lo to Hip Hop
    James Jordan, Tony Kushner and Sarah Pearce, eds.
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    What the Furies Bring
    Kenneth Sherman
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    New Essays in Amer­i­can Jew­ish History
    Pamela S. Nadell, Jonathan D. Sarna and Lance J. Sussman, eds.
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    Man­hood for Ama­teurs: The Plea­sures and Regrets of a Hus­band, Father and Son
    Michael Chabon
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    Once Jews: Sto­ries of Caribbean Sephardim
    Josette Capriles Goldish
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    The Essays of Leonard Michaels
    Leonard Michaels
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