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Scholarship

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The Ori­gins of Jew­ish Mysticism
Peter Schäfer
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Stone and Dung, Oil and Spit: Jew­ish Dai­ly Life in the Time of Jesus
Jodi Magness
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Bratisla­va Press­burg Poz­sony: Jew­ish Sec­u­lar Endeav­ors, 1867 – 1938
A. Robert Neurath
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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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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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Non­fic­tion
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…
JBC Staff
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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