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    Cover of People of the Book: Philosemitism in England from Cromwell to Churchill
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    Peo­ple of the Book: Philosemitism in Eng­land from Cromwell to Churchill
    Gertrude Himmelfarb
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    Pover­ty and Char­i­ty in the Jew­ish Com­mu­ni­ty of Medieval Egypt
    Mark R. Cohen
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    Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holo­caust America
    Eric J. Sundquist
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    Ori­gins of the Oth­er: Emmanuel Lev­inas Between Rev­e­la­tion and Ethics
    Samuel Moyn
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    The Nat­ur­al His­to­ry of the Bible: An Envi­ron­men­tal Explo­ration of the Hebrew Scriptures
    Daniel Hillel
    Cover of Beyond Religious Borders: Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World
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    Beyond Reli­gious Bor­ders: Inter­ac­tion and Intel­lec­tu­al Exchange in the Medieval Islam­ic World
    David M. Freidenreich and Miriam Goldstein, eds.
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    The Rise of Mod­ern Yid­dish Cullture
    David E. Fishman
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    Dai­ly Life of the Jews in the Mid­dle Ages
    Norman Roth
    Cover of God's Mountain: The Temple Mount in Time, Place and Memory
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    God’s Moun­tain: The Tem­ple Mount in Time, Place and Memory
    Yaron Z. Eliav
    Cover of Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity
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    Demon­ic Desires: Yet­zer Hara and the Prob­lem of Evil in Late Antiquity
    Ishay Rosen-Zvi
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    Soci­ety & Self: On the Writ­ings of Rab­bi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
    Gerald J. Blidstein
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    The Hebrew Book in Ear­ly Mod­ern Italy
    Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear, eds.
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    On the Ori­gins of Jew­ish Self-Hatred
    Paul Reitter
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    Ori­en­tal­ism and the Hebrew Imagination
    Yaron Peleg
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    The Lad­der of Jacob: Ancient Inter­pre­ta­tions of the Bib­li­cal Sto­ry of Jacob and His Children
    James L. Kugel
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    Reck­less Rites: Purim and the Lega­cy of Jew­ish Violence
    Elliot Horowitz
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