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Cover of Inside the Torah: Narrative, Interpretation, and Mystical Meanings
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Inside the Torah: Nar­ra­tive, Inter­pre­ta­tion, and Mys­ti­cal Meanings
Rab­bi Char­na Klein
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Jews in South­ern Tus­cany dur­ing the Holo­caust: Ambigu­ous Refuge
Judith Roumani
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Sur­vival on the Mar­gins: Pol­ish Jew­ish Refugees in the Wartime Sovi­et Union
Eliyana Adler
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Ani Maamin: Bib­li­cal Crit­i­cism, His­tor­i­cal Truth and the Thir­teen Prin­ci­ples of Faith
Joshua Berman
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The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
Mari­na Rustow
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The Foun­da­tions of Amer­i­can Jew­ish Liberalism
Kenneth D. Wald
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A Cen­tral Chal­lenge in Trans­lat­ing the Bible 

Robert Alter
May 25, 2020
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Sin•a•gogue: Sin and Fail­ure in Jew­ish Thought
David Bashevkin
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Res­cue the Sur­viv­ing Souls: The Great Jew­ish Refugee Cri­sis of the Sev­en­teenth Century
Adam Teller
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Time and Dif­fer­ence in Rab­binic Judaism
Sarit Kattan Gribetz
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Nah­manides: Law and Mysticism
Moshe Halbertal, Daniel Tabak (trans.)
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Demons, Angels, and Writ­ing in Ancient Judaism
Annette Yoshiko Reed
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Leav­ing Zion: Jew­ish Emi­gra­tion from Pales­tine and Israel after World War II
Ori Yehu­dai
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Stepchil­dren of the Shtetl: The Des­ti­tute, Dis­abled, and Mad of Jew­ish East­ern Europe, 1800 – 1939
Natan M. Meir
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Jerusalem: City of the Book
Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint
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The Land of Truth: Tal­mud Tales, Time­less Teachings 
Jef­frey L. Rubenstein
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