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Cover of Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity
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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
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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
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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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Irv­ing Berlin’s Amer­i­can Musi­cal Theater
Jeffrey Magee
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