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    Cover of Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
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    Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Nar­ra­tive, and Fate
    Daniel Mendel­sohn
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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
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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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    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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    Time and Dif­fer­ence in Rab­binic Judaism
    Sarit Kattan Gribetz
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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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