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Scholarship

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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
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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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Rais­ing Sec­u­lar Jews: Yid­dish Schools and Their Peri­od­i­cals for Amer­i­can Chil­dren, 1917 – 1950
Naomi Prawer Kadar
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