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    Cover of The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
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    The Age of Insight: The Quest to Under­stand the Uncon­scious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vien­na 1900 to the Present
    Eric R. Kandel
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    Sur­viv­ing Sac­ri­lege: Cul­tur­al Per­sis­tence in Jew­ish Antiquity
    Steven Weitzman
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    Learn­ing from the Tanya, Vol. II
    Rab­bi Adin Steinsaltz
    Cover of Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity
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    Exclu­sion and Hier­ar­chy: Ortho­doxy, Nonob­ser­vance, and the Emer­gence of Mod­ern Jew­ish Identity
    Adam S. Ferziger
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    Princess or Pris­on­er?: Jew­ish Women in Jerusalem, 1840 – 1914
    Margalit Shilo
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    Yah­weh Ver­sus Yah­weh: The Enig­ma of Jew­ish History
    Jay Y. Gonen
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    Teach Me About God: The Mean­ing and Sig­nif­i­cance of the Name of God
    Walter Orenstein
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    Sto­ries of Heav­en and Earth: Bible Heroes in Con­tem­po­rary Chil­dren’s Literature
    Hara E. Person and Diane G. Person
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    Jews and the Amer­i­can Soul: Human Nature in the 20th Century
    Andrew R. Heinze
    Cover of Jews Welcome Coffee: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Germany
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    Jews Wel­come Cof­fee: Tra­di­tion and Inno­va­tion in Ear­ly Mod­ern Germany
    Robert Liberles
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    The Pain Of Knowledge
    Yair Auron; Ruth Ruzga, trans.
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    Jew­ish Bio­med­ical Law: Jew­ish Law Asso­ci­a­tion Stud­ies XV
    Daniel B. Sinclair, ed.
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    The Stains of Cul­ture: An Eth­no-Read­ing of Karaite Jew­ish Women
    Ruth Tsoffar
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    Amer­i­can Dreams and Nazi Night­mares: Ear­ly Holo­caust Con­scious­ness and Lib­er­al Amer­i­ca 1957 – 1965
    Kristen Fermaglich
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    The Voice of the Poor in the Mid­dle Ages: An Anthol­o­gy of Doc­u­ments From the Cairo Geniza
    Mark Cohen
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    Peo­ple of the Book: Philosemitism in Eng­land from Cromwell to Churchill
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
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