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Scholarship

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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
Essay

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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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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Karaism: An Intro­duc­tion to the Old­est Sur­viv­ing Alter­na­tive Judaism
Daniel J. Lasker
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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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A ​“Jew­ish Mar­shall Plan” The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Pres­ence in Post-Holo­caust France
Lau­ra Hob­son Faure
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