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Scholarship

Cover of The Dynamics of Becoming Orthodox: Dutch Jewish Women Returning to Judaism and How Their Mothers Felt about It
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The Dynam­ics of Becom­ing Ortho­dox: Dutch Jew­ish Women Return­ing to Judaism and How Their Moth­ers Felt about It
Minny E. Mock-Degen
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Elie Wiesel: Jew­ish, Lit­er­ary, and Moral Perspectives
Steven T. Katz and Alan Rosen, eds.
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A Vig­i­lant Soci­ety: Jew­ish Thought and the State in Medieval Spain
Javier Roiz; Selma L. Margaretten, trans.
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A Mah­zor From Worms: Art and Reli­gion in a Medieval Jew­ish Community
Katrin Kogman-Appel
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City of Rogues and Schnor­rers: Rus­si­a’s Jews and the Myth of Old Odessa
Jarrod Tanny
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Anne Frank Unbound: Media, Imag­i­na­tion, Memory
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and Jeffrey Shandler, eds.
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In God’s Shad­ow: Pol­i­tics in the Hebrew Bible
Michael Walzer
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Inher­it­ing Abra­ham: The Lega­cy of the Patri­arch in Judaism, Chris­tian­i­ty, and Islam
Jon D. Levenson
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A Win­dow on Their World: The Court Diary of Rab­bi Hayy­im Gun­der­sheim — Frank­furt am Main, 1773 – 1794
Edward Fram
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From Gods to God: How the Bible Debunked, Sup­pressed, or Changed Ancient Myths and Legends
Avigdor Shinan and Yair Zakovitch; Valerie Zakovitch, trans.
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Visu­al­iz­ing Atroc­i­ty: Arendt, Evil and the Optics of Thoughtlessness
Valerie Hartouni
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Becom­ing Frum: How New­com­ers Learn the Lan­guage and Cul­ture of Ortho­dox Judaism
Sarah Bunin Benor
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Becom­ing Sovi­et Jews: The Bol­she­vik Exper­i­ment in Minsk
Elis­sa Bemporad
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From Ambiva­lence to Betray­al: The Left, the Jews, and Israel
Robert S. Wistrich
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The Intel­lec­tu­al His­to­ry and Rab­binic Cul­ture of Medieval Ashkenaz
Ephraim Kanarfogel
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Ancient Israel: The For­mer Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings
Robert Alter
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