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    Cover of Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz: Men, Women, and Everyday Religious Observance
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    Prac­tic­ing Piety in Medieval Ashke­naz: Men, Women, and Every­day Reli­gious Observance
    Elisheva Baumgarten
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    Bib­li­cal Images: Men and Women of the Book
    Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz; Yehuda Hanegbi and Yehudit Keshet, trans.
    Cover of A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century
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    A Cho­sen Call­ing: Jews in Sci­ence in the Twen­ti­eth Century
    Noah J. Efron
    Cover of A New Psalm: The Psalms as Literature
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    A New Psalm: The Psalms as Literature
    Benjamin J. Segal
    Cover of Outside the Bible, 3-Volume Set: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture
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    Out­side the Bible, 3‑Volume Set: Ancient Jew­ish Writ­ings Relat­ed to Scripture
    Louis H. Feldman, James L. Kugel & Lawrence H. Schiffman, eds.
    Cover of Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times
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    Against the Grain: Jew­ish Intel­lec­tu­als in Hard Times
    Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman & Richard I. Cohen, eds.
    Cover of The Bible's Cutting Room Floor
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    The Bible’s Cut­ting Room Floor
    Joel Hoff­man
    Cover of The Formation of the Jewish Canon
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    The For­ma­tion of the Jew­ish Canon
    Timothy H. Lim
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    Unlearn­ing with Han­nah Arendt
    Marie Luise Knott
    Cover of The Song of Songs: The Honeybee in the Garden
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    The Song of Songs: The Hon­ey­bee in the Garden
    Debra Band
    Cover of Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture
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    Agnon’s Moon­struck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture
    Ilana Pardes
    Cover of Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory
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    Jew­ish Spain: A Mediter­ranean Memory
    Tabea Alexa Linhard
    Cover of Mixing Musics: Turkish Jewry and the Urban Landscape of a Sacred Song
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    Mix­ing Musics: Turk­ish Jew­ry and the Urban Land­scape of a Sacred Song
    Maureen Jackson
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    Lithuan­ian Yeshiv­as of the Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry: Cre­at­ing a Tra­di­tion of Learning
    Shaul Stampfer; Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, trans.
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    Mai­monides: Life and Thought
    Moshe Halbertal
    Cover of Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places
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    Jew­ish Poland Revis­it­ed: Her­itage Tourism in Unqui­et Places
    Erica T. Lehrer
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