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Scholarship

Cover of The Mystery of the Kaddish: Its Profound Influence on Judaism
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The Mys­tery of the Kad­dish: Its Pro­found Influ­ence on Judaism
Leon Charney
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The Mys­ti­cal Ori­gins of Hasidism
Rachel Elior; Shalom Carmy, trans.
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Men of Silk: The Hasidic Con­quest of Pol­ish Jew­ish Society
Glenn Dyn­ner
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Galileo’s Gout: Sci­ence in an Age of Endarkenment
Gerald Weissmann
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Ele­ments of Ancient Jew­ish Nationalism
David Goodblatt
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The Wis­dom of Judaism: An Intro­duc­tion to the Val­ues of the Talmud
Dov Peretz Elkins
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Jon­ah: A Mod­ern Commentary
Leonard S. Kravitz; Kerry M. Olitzky
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The Bones Reassem­ble: Recon­sti­tut­ing Litur­gi­cal Speech
Catherine Madsen
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Jew­ish Thought: An Introduction
Oliver Leaman
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Rab­binic and Lay Com­mu­nal Authority
Suzanne Last Stone
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The Zohar: Pritzk­er Edi­tion, Vol­ume Six
Daniel C. Matt, trans. and commentary
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Music in Jew­ish His­to­ry and Culture
Emanuel Rubin; John H. Baron
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Under­stand­ing the Tanya
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz; Yaacov David Shulman, trans.; Meir HaNegbi, ed.
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Con­ceal­ment and Rev­e­la­tion: Eso­teri­cism in Jew­ish Thought and its Philo­soph­i­cal Implications
Moshe Halbertal; Jackie Feldman, trans.
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Dis­put­ing Chris­tian­i­ty: The 400 Year Old Debate Over Rab­bi Isaac Ben Abra­ham of Troki’s Clas­sic Arguments
Richard Popkin
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Abstrac­tion and the Holocaust
Mark Godfrey
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