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    Nar­rat­ing the Law: A Poet­ics of Tal­mu­dic Legal Stories
    Bar­ry Scott Wimpfheimer
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    The Sages: Char­ac­ter, Con­text, and Cre­ativ­i­ty, Vol. 1: The Sec­ond Tem­ple Period
    Rabbi Binyamin Lau; Michael Prawer, trans.
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    Bratisla­va Press­burg Poz­sony: Jew­ish Sec­u­lar Endeav­ors, 1867 – 1938
    A. Robert Neurath
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    Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Time of Jesus
    Jodi Magness
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    The Zohar: Pritzk­er Edi­tion, Vol­ume Five
    Daniel Matt, trans. and commentary
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    The Heart Is a Mir­ror: The Sephardic Folktale
    Tamar Alexander-Frizer; Jacqueline S. Teitelbaum, trans.
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    Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship
    Frederick E. Greenspahn, ed.
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    Law and Truth in Bib­li­cal and Rab­binic Literature
    Chaya T. Halberstam
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    Ger­mans into Jews: Remak­ing the Jew­ish Social Body in the Weimar Republic
    Sharon Gillerman
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    Franklin Lit­tell, Schol­ar of Holo­caust, Dies at 91

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-TeeterFranklin Lit­tell, a father of Holo­caust stud­ies, died last Sat­ur­day at his home in Penn­syl­va­nia. The New York Times…
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    June 3, 2009
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    The Essen­tial Talmud
    Rab­bi Adin Steinsaltz
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    Fig­u­ra­tive Lan­guage in Bib­li­cal Prose Nar­ra­tive: Metaphor in the Book of Samuel 
    Andrea Weiss
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