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Modern Jewish Thought

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The Bless­ing and the Curse: The Jew­ish Peo­ple and Their Books in the Twen­ti­eth Century
Adam Kirsch
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Torah in a Time of Plague: His­tor­i­cal and Con­tem­po­rary Jew­ish Responses
Erin Leib Smokler (Editor)
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It Could Lead to Danc­ing: Mixed-Sex Danc­ing and Jew­ish Modernity
Sonia Gollance
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Think­ing about the Prophets: A Philoso­pher Reads the Bible
Ken­neth Seeskin
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The Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­al Tra­di­tion: A His­to­ry of Learn­ing and Achievement
Alan Kadish
Michael A. Shmidman
Sim­cha Fishbane
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The New Jew­ish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980 – 2015
Yehuda Kurtzer, Claire E. Sufrin (eds.)  
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When We Turned With­in: Reflec­tions on COVID-19
Rabbi Menachem Creditor and Sarah Tuttle-Singer, eds.
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What Are Jews For? His­to­ry, Peo­ple­hood, and Purpose
Adam Sut­cliffe
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Think Least of Death: Spin­oza On How To Live And How To Die
Steven Nadler
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Four Rab­bis at Lunch: Can­did Con­ver­sa­tions Among Amer­i­can Clergy
Dov Peretz Elkins
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Hid­den Heretics: Jew­ish Doubt in a Dig­i­tal Age
Ayala Fad­er
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Ani Maamin: Bib­li­cal Crit­i­cism, His­tor­i­cal Truth and the Thir­teen Prin­ci­ples of Faith
Joshua Berman
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Authen­ti­cal­ly Ortho­dox: A Tra­di­tion-Bound Faith in Amer­i­can Life
Zev Eleff
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Mar­tin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent
Paul Mendes-Flohr
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Pos­i­tive Judaism: For a Life­time of Well-Being and Happiness
Dar­ren Levine
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Leav­ing Zion: Jew­ish Emi­gra­tion from Pales­tine and Israel after World War II
Ori Yehu­dai
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