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    Cover of A "Jewish Marshall Plan" The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France
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    A ​“Jew­ish Mar­shall Plan” The Amer­i­can Jew­ish Pres­ence in Post-Holo­caust France
    Lau­ra Hob­son Faure
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    Come and Hear: What I Saw in My Sev­en-and-a-Half-Year Jour­ney through the Talmud
    Adam Kirsch
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    Filled with Fire and Light: Por­traits and Leg­ends from the Bible, Tal­mud, and Hasidic World 
    Elie Wiesel, Alan Rosen (Editor)
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    Com­ing to Terms with Amer­i­ca: Essays on Jew­ish His­to­ry, Reli­gion, and Culture
    Jonathan D. Sarna
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    Sur­vivors: Chil­dren’s Lives After the Holocaust
    Rebecca Clifford
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    Shak­ing Up the Tanakh

    Ali­son L. Joseph
    May 3, 2021
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    Con­ver­sion, Cir­cum­ci­sion, and Rit­u­al Mur­der in Medieval Europe
    Paola Tartakoff
    Cover of Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine
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    Songs in Dark Times: Yid­dish Poet­ry of Strug­gle from Scotts­boro to Palestine
    Amelia M. Glaser
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    The Bless­ing and the Curse: The Jew­ish Peo­ple and Their Books in the Twen­ti­eth Century
    Adam Kirsch
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    Yeshi­va Days: Learn­ing on the Low­er East Side
    Jonathan Boyarin
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    Seek­ers of the Face: Secrets of the Idra Rab­ba (The Great Assem­bly) of the Zohar 
    Melila Hellner-Eshed
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    Inter­na­tion­al Jew­ish Human­i­tar­i­an­ism in the Age of the Great War
    Jaclyn Granick
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    Invis­i­ble Enlight­en­ers: The Jew­ish Mer­chants of Mod­e­na, from the Renais­sance to the Emancipation 
    Federica Francesconi
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    Pow­er and Emo­tion in Ancient Judaism: Com­mu­ni­ty and Iden­ti­ty in Formation
    Ari Mermelstein
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    Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome’s Chal­lenge to Israel
    Katell Berthelot
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    The Bib­li­cal Hero: Por­traits in Nobil­i­ty and Fallibility
    Elliot Rabin
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