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    Cover of Living with the Law: Gender and Community Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
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    Liv­ing with the Law: Gen­der and Com­mu­ni­ty Among the Jews of Medieval Egypt
    Oded Zinger
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    Onto Cen­ter Stage: The Bib­li­cal Woman
    Sara Reguer
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    Invent­ing William of Nor­wich: Thomas of Mon­mouth, Anti­semitism, and Lit­er­ary Cul­ture, 1150 – 1200
    Heather Blur­ton
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    Ruth: A Migrant’s Tale
    Ilana Pardes
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    The Object of Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture: A Mate­r­i­al History
    Bar­bara E. Mann
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    Seha: A Wise Fool in Moroc­can Jew­ish Folklore

    Marc Eliany
    November 7, 2022
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    Hebrew Mat­ters: 110 Hebrew Roots; the Roads They Take; the Sto­ries They Tell
    Joseph Lowin
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    Dirshu­ni: Con­tem­po­rary Women’s Midrash
    Tamar Biala, ed.
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    Becom­ing Eli­jah: Prophet of Transformation
    Daniel C. Matt
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    Karaism: An Intro­duc­tion to the Old­est Sur­viv­ing Alter­na­tive Judaism
    Daniel J. Lasker
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    Beyond Zion:The Jew­ish Ter­ri­to­ri­al­ist Movement
    Lau­ra Almagor
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    Yid­dish Paris: Stag­ing Nation and Com­mu­ni­ty in Inter­war France
    Nick Under­wood
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    Queer­ing Anti-Zion­ism: Aca­d­e­m­ic Free­dom, LGBTQ Intel­lec­tu­als, and Israel/​Palestine Cam­pus Activism
    Corinne E. Blackmer
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    An Uncho­sen Peo­ple: Jew­ish Polit­i­cal Reck­on­ing in Inter­war Poland
    Ken­neth B. Moss
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    The Heresy of Jacob Frank: From Jew­ish Mes­sian­ism to Eso­teric Myth
    Jay Michael­son
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    Bib­li­cal Women and Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Mid­dle Ages
    Eli­she­va Baumgarten
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