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    Cover of The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times
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    The Great Shift: Encoun­ter­ing God in Bib­li­cal Times
    James L. Kugel
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    The Mer­chants of Oran: A Jew­ish Port at the Dawn of Empire
    Joshua Schreier
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    Ances­tral Tales: Read­ing the Bucza­cz Sto­ries of S.Y. Agnon
    Alan Mintz
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    Mai­monides and the Mer­chants: Jew­ish Law and Soci­ety in the Medieval Islam­ic World
    Mark R. Cohen
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    Pious Irrev­er­ence: Con­fronting God in Rab­binic Judaism
    Dov Weiss
    Cover of Confessions of the Shtetl: Converts from Judaism in Imperial Russia, 1817-1906
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    Con­fes­sions of the Shtetl: Con­verts from Judaism in Impe­r­i­al Rus­sia, 1817 – 1906
    Ellie R. Schainker
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    Con­sumer Cul­ture and the Mak­ing of Mod­ern Jew­ish Identity
    Gideon Reuveni
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    Hitler’s Amer­i­can Mod­el: The Unit­ed States and the Mak­ing of Nazi Race Law
    James Q. Whitman
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    Jews on the Fron­tier: Reli­gion and Mobil­i­ty in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry America
    Shari Rabin
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    Jews, Gen­tiles, and Oth­er Ani­mals: The Tal­mud After the Humanities
    Mira Beth Wasserman
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    Art and the Artist in the Con­tem­po­rary Israeli Novel
    Joseph Lowin
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    Rea­son to Believe: Ratio­nal Expla­na­tions of Ortho­dox Jew­ish Faith
    Chaim Jachter
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    A Remem­brance of His Won­ders: Nature and the Super­nat­ur­al in Medieval Ashkenaz
    David I. Shyovitz
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    Jus­tice for All: How the Jew­ish Bible Rev­o­lu­tion­ized Ethics
    Jeremiah Unterman
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    Covenant & Con­ver­sa­tion Num­bers: The Wilder­ness Years
    Jonathan Sacks
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    The Implaca­ble Urge to Defame: Car­toon Jews in the Amer­i­can Press, 1877 – 1935
    Matthew Baigell
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