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Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Time of Jesus
Jodi Magness
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The Jews of North Africa: From Dido to De Gaulle
Sarah Taieb-Carlen; Amos Carlen, trans.
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Sephar­di Fam­i­ly Life in the Ear­ly Mod­ern Diaspora
Julia R. Lieberman, ed.
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The Frank­furt Juden­gasse: Jew­ish Life in an Ear­ly Mod­ern Ger­man City
Fritz Backhaus, Gisela Engel, Robert Liberles and Margarete Schlüter, eds.
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Bratisla­va Press­burg Poz­sony: Jew­ish Sec­u­lar Endeav­ors, 1867 – 1938
A. Robert Neurath
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Gen­der and Jew­ish History
Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, eds.
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The Jews of San Nicandro
John A. Davis
Cover of Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967
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Good Arabs: The Israeli Secu­ri­ty Agen­cies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948 – 1967
Hillel Cohen; Haim Watzman, trans.
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Halakhah in the Mak­ing: The Devel­op­ment of Jew­ish Law from Qum­ran to the Rabbis
Aharon Shemesh
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Recon­struct­ing Ashke­naz: The Human Face of Fran­co-Ger­man Jew­ry, 1000 – 1250
David Malkiel
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Ghosts of Home: The After­life of Czer­nowitz in Jew­ish Memory
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
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Think­ing in Dark Times: Han­nah Arendt on Ethics and Politics
Roger Berkowitz, Jeffrey Katz, and Thomas Keenan, eds.
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Sta­tion Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion: A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of Yid­dish Radio in the Unit­ed States
Ari Y. Kelman
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Kings of the Jews: Explor­ing the Ori­gins of the Jew­ish Nation
Norman Gelb
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Jew­ish Renais­sance in the Russ­ian Revolution
Kenneth B. Moss
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The Enig­ma of Isaac Babel: Biog­ra­phy, His­to­ry, Context
Gregory Freidin
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