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Scholarship

Cover of Unusual Bible Interpretations: Ruth, Esther, and Judith
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Unusu­al Bible Inter­pre­ta­tions: Ruth, Esther, and Judith
Israel Drazin
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Hybrid Judaism
Dar­ren Kleinberg
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Thank You G‑d For Mak­ing Me a Woman
Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin
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Jew­ish Com­e­dy: A Seri­ous History
Jeremy Dauber Finalist for the 2018 Natan Book Award
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Amer­i­can Jew­ry: Tran­scend­ing the Euro­pean Experience
Christian Wiese and Cornelia Wilhelm
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The Sto­ry of Hebrew
Lewis Glin­ert
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Home­less Tongues: Poet­ry and Lan­guages of the Sephardic Diaspora
Monique Rodrigues Balbuena
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Sex­u­al­i­ty in the Baby­lon­ian Talmud
Yishai Kiel
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Clep­sy­dra: Essay on the Plu­ral­i­ty of Time in Judaism
Sylvie Anne Goldberg; Benjamin Ivry, trans.
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The Zohar: Recep­tion and Impact
Boaz Huss
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The Jews of Harlem
Jeffrey S. Gurock
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Extrater­ri­to­r­i­al Dreams: Europe Cit­i­zen­ship, Sephar­di Jews, and the Ottoman Twen­ti­eth Century
Sarah Abre­vaya Stein
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Anti-Jew­ish Riots in the Crown of Aragon and the Roy­al Response 1391 – 1392
Benjamin R. Gampel
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Jew­ish Mag­ic before the Rise of Kabbalah
Yuval Harari
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The House of the Mother
Cynthia R. Chapman
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The Meno­rah: From the Bible to Mod­ern Israel
Steven Fine
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