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Scholarship

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The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History
Nir Ariel­li
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Fol­low­ing Sim­i­lar Paths: What Amer­i­can Jews and Mus­lims Can Learn from One Another
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The Busi­ness of Tran­si­tion: Jew­ish and Greek Mer­chants of Saloni­ca from Ottoman to Greek Rule
Paris Papami­chos Chronakis
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The Mak­ing of Dias­po­ra in the Ancient World

Mal­ka Z. Simkovich
December 30, 2024
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Frac­tured Tablets: For­get­ful­ness and Fal­li­bil­i­ty in Late Ancient Rab­binic Culture
Mira Bal­berg
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The Last Words of Moses
Micah Goodman; Ilana Kurshan, trans.
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Baby­lon­ian Jews and Sasan­ian Impe­ri­al­ism in Late Antiquity
Sim­cha Gross
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Abra­ham: The Sto­ry of a Journey
Jonathan Grossman
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Entwined Home­lands, Empow­ered Dias­po­ras: His­pan­ic Moroc­can Jews and Their Glob­al­iz­ing Community
Avi­ad Moreno
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Eccle­si­astes and the Search for Meaning
Eri­ca Brown
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Queer Judaism
Orit Avishai
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Holy Rebel­lion: Reli­gious Fem­i­nism and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Judaism and Wom­en’s Rights in Israel
Ronit Irsahi and Tanya Zion-Waldoks
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Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust 
Ari Joskow­icz
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The Ori­gins of Judaism: An Archae­o­log­i­cal-His­tor­i­cal Reappraisal
Yonatan Adler
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The Sages: Char­ac­ter, Con­text and Cre­ativ­i­ty, Vol. V: The Yeshiv­ot of Baby­lo­nia and Israel
Binyamin Lau; Ilana Kur­shan, trans.
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Liv­ing with the Law: Gen­der and Com­mu­ni­ty Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
Oded Zinger
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